Giles Edwards
@gilesedwards
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Author and radio producer - of programmes on BBC R4, R3, World Service + Editor of Political Thinking on R4. Latest book ‘The Ex Men’. My views.
Joined February 2010
Coming Soon! I'm very excited to announce that my new book 'The Ex Men', will be out on 15th October from @BitebackPub . It's about what Presidents and Prime Ministers do when they leave office (the short answer: a lot). Available to pre-order now
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RT @bbcnickrobinson: You can watch the interview with @JoeBiden on @bbciplayer or YouTube or listen on @BBCSounds. .
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To mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, former president Joe Biden sits down with Nick Robinson for an exclusive interview, his first since leaving the White House.
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RT @bbcnickrobinson: Some good news to announce. My series of extended reflective conversations with those who shape our political thinking….
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Today is the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bomb. A couple of years ago @Emmabarnett and I went to Oklahoma for @bbcworldservice and spoke to people who were generous in sharing their remarkable stories. We found a city shaped by tragedy.
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How Oklahoma City transformed itself after the devastating bomb in 1995
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RT @MLClem: Very much looking forward to discussing my new book ‘The Art of Delivery’ with @MichaelBarber9 on 25 March 1830 @thestrandgroup….
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RT @bbcnickrobinson: 🚨I’m delighted to report that former Prime Minister @RishiSunak will be breaking his silence and giving his first maj….
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Ishmael Reed is one of America's great writers - a literary and political iconoclast who is still creating at 86 years old. Lindsay Johns and I travelled to his Oakland home to talk about his remarkable life -
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Lindsay Johns meets the polymathic American writer Ishmael Reed.
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If you're looking at US politics and wondering how it got here and what comes next, @naughtiej and I have been in the swing state of Arizona for @BBCRadio4 to explore how debates over immigration and abortion have reshaped politics. You can listen here
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James Naughtie examines the backdrop to this year's United States presidential election.
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Because the M25 and A3 and A24 are also closed and your roadworks are causing absolute chaos for thousands of motorists.
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RT @rachelburden: Here’s a thing I made for @BBCRadio4 which is on tonight if you want to loiter round your wireless. Or more likely catch….
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RT @woodgnomology: The Deadly Business of Democracy:. 'Four recent MPs reveal how serious threats against them, their families and staff ar….
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How serious threats against MPs, their families and staff put the UK's democracy at risk.
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Thanks @davidyelland - love is a theme throughout the series, and if you haven't had a chance to listen yet, the first two episodes - on hunger and rough sleeping - are available now on @BBCSounds.
Louise Casey is making some of the most important radio for years, 'Fixing Britain' manages to avoid party politics and uses a word we never use properly in how we approach societal problems: Love. Do listen. 💕
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Thanks @MishalHusain Was proud to make this series in 2033 with the brilliant @tombateman. Commissioned months before it became so tragically timely by @djoeclarke.
One of the best series of the year. Particularly timely right now but also timeless - takes us back to the way Britain and France ruled, the key decisions, and brings in the historians’ own family stories. By @tombateman
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RT @davidyelland: Louise Casey is making some of the most important radio for years, 'Fixing Britain' manages to avoid party politics and….
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Listen to the latest episodes of Fixing Britain with Louise Casey on BBC Sounds.
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What can the story of a 750 year old Jewish prayer book tell us about the possibility of living together? @fjrrl has always been fascinated and for @bbcworldservice she and I visited Sarajevo to find out. You can listen here
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How a 700-year-old Jewish prayer book captures the story of Sarajevo
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Ewan has a fantastic talent for telling unlikely football stories brilliantly.
You ever heard the one about the K-19 Soviet nuclear submariner turned banker, who won Dancing With The Stars while running amok in Scottish Football? .Loved writing about Vladimir Romanov’s mad reign at Hearts in @blzzrd #51- available to order here:
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RT @tombateman: “A time so foundational it is effectively a history of the present”. Take a listen as I present episode 1 of #TheMandates -….
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How the effects of French and British mandates in the Middle East still reverberate today.
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Who should be a refugee? Suella Braverman is far from the first to ask, as @mobilitymuse showed in our 2021 series 'One Hundred Years of Exile' for @bbcworldservice
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How do refugee crises begin and who can be considered a refugee?
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RT @bodleianlibs: Writer and broadcaster Lindsay Johns, a @UniofOxford alumnus, is proud to have endowed the Clément Olympe Lavanne Prize f….
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"You never know how bad we would have been!" - former Chancellor Ken Clarke reflects with @naughtiej on never quite getting the top job, his 50 year career at the top of UK politics, and the similarity between Labour and Conservatives on the economy.
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Lord Clarke talks to James Naughtie about his 50 years on the front line of politics.
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