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Producer & Reporter for @BBCRadio4 and @bbcworldservice. Formerly @bbcpolitics, @bbcpointswest, @bbcpoliticswest and @bbcnews 📻 📺🎙 Trustee @DrJennersHouse

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1 year
Out now - my documentary on excessive sand mining in the Mekong. Yup, another environmental crisis to worry about but the programme comes with solutions too! Big thanks to @VinceBeiser, @marcgoichot.Pascal Peduzzi from @UNEP, Julian Leyland & @_andy_ball.
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Sand mining is fuelling Cambodia's construction boom but at what cost to the environment?
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Robin Markwell
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RT @bbcworldservice: How can Chile satisfy an electrifying world’s hunger for copper and at what cost?. 🎧 A window into our world, through….
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How can Chile satisfy an electrifying world’s hunger for copper and at what cost?
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Robin Markwell
1 month
Big thanks to @thetimes for recommending my latest documentary, this time about copper and Chile. Aired today on the @bbcworldservice Catch it now on @BBCSounds 📻 🇨🇱
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Robin Markwell
2 months
Thanks for being part of the programme @RosieDuffield1 - albeit inadvertently!.
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Rosie Duffield MP
2 months
Accidentally hearing myself pop up on @BBCRadio4's @BBCFoodProg talking about fake sourdough products (or 'sourfaux') on supermarket shelves during an @CommonsEFRA session may be the single most middle-class thing that's ever happened to me!.
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Robin Markwell
2 months
Fab day with the @foodmuseumuk in Suffolk talking the history of school dinners for an @BBCRadio4 Food Programme going out today. Turkey twizzlers, gloopy gravy and lumpy custard abound!
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Robin Markwell
3 months
Comments made on this week's Any Questions in Epperstone making the news. BBC News - Labour minister sorry over grooming gangs 'dog whistle' remark - BBC News.
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Leader of the Commons Lucy Powell has sought to clarify comments she made in "the heat of" a radio debate.
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Robin Markwell
3 months
Just back from Chile for a @bbcworldservice documentary called The Copper Kingdom. Chile produces a quarter of the world's copper but at what cost to the environment? I've been investigating at the world's largest open pit mine in the Atacama desert. Airing in June 📻 🌎 🇨🇱
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Robin Markwell
3 months
This was a delightful afternoon in the Somerset countryside with the @thatchers_cider team for @bbcradio4 featuring most kinds of weather! Big thanks to producer Jo Peacey and @honestimbritney
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Robin Markwell visits a new orchard being planted in Somerset.
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Robin Markwell
4 months
RT @DaleVince: Speaking to Radio 4 at FGR this afternoon, about food for a change. ;)
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Robin Markwell
5 months
Very grateful to the Smithfield traders for being so welcoming and allowing me to see some butchery up close. A fascinating topic and so much history - this was a real pleasure to make. You can catch it again here.
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Sheila Dillon examines the impact of closing Smithfield and Billingsgate markets in London
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The Food Programme
5 months
A 3am wake-up call to join the meat traders of Smithfield Market for this week's prog. The @cityoflondon is closing both Smithfield and the Billingsgate fish market so what will it mean for our food security? Feat. @Aliciajweston @drmatthewgreen @carolynsteel @ProfTimLang🥩🐟📻
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Robin Markwell
5 months
Today's two offices couldn't be much more different. For two separate programmes on @BBCRadio4 but both with some form of butchery at their heart!
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Robin Markwell
6 months
On today's @BBCFoodProg on @BBCRadio4 with @jaegawise - as Dry January comes to a close, how the alcohol free drinks movement is booming and when did AF beer become tasty? with particular thanks to @joinclubsoda @KAMInsight @LuckySaintBeer @WiperAndTrue @BrisBeerFactory 🍺
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Robin Markwell
7 months
I made this for @BBCRadio4 this morn with @jaegawise and featuring @GordonBrown. How did Britain become a Food Bank Nation? With huge thanks to the @brisnwfoodbank & @CommunityShops Really grateful to all those who shared their stories 🙏📻
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Jaega Wise investigates the rise of the food bank in the UK and interviews Gordon Brown.
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Robin Markwell
8 months
A great listen and thanks for selecting some of our Food Programme for @bbcradio4 featuring @MichaelRosenYes and a certain delicious poem about cake too.
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8 months
Sean Rafferty harvests the cream of the crop audio wise on Pick @BBCRadio4 tonight at 1815, including @charlottebsmith @Auntie_Flo @RochesterCathed @DonaldMacleod01 @wisemandebbie and more… plus, not just one but TWO nods to The Archers!
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Robin Markwell
8 months
Thrilled to have former PM @GordonBrown on the @BBCFoodProg for @BBCRadio4 with @jaegawise. We're looking at the evolution of the Food Bank. Coming soon to your 📻
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Robin Markwell
8 months
RT @DanSaladinoUK: My take on the recent £300k cheddar theft. A story featuring black markets, organised crime, wheels of Parmesan embedded….
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How cheese has become so valuable that it's being stolen to order
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Robin Markwell
9 months
Super-thrilled to be on the @WeAreAudioUK shortlist among these lovely people, thanks to a programme I made with the brilliant @LegoLostAtSea for @bbcradio4 last year. Lego Overboard still on @BBCSounds at
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Five million pieces of Lego are washed overboard. Meet the beachcombers looking for them.
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⭐️The nominees for THE SUSTAINABILITY & CLIMATE AWARD are: . @audioalways.@ben_wh @restord_earth.@Ellie_McDowall @fallingtreeprod.@getbirdingpod @peanutandcrumb.@JamesNaturalist @BellaLack Freelance.@robinmarkwell Tracey Williams @LegoLostAtSea BBC Audio. #APAs24
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Robin Markwell
11 months
RT @hwallop: 🍌📻 I’ve been away. So missed that the radio documentary I did with @bbcworldservice & @robinmarkwell was pick of the day in Ma….
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Robin Markwell
11 months
RT @bbcworldservice: The world’s most popular banana is under threat. A killer fungus, known as TR4, is ravaging plantations of the Cavend….
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A killer fungus known as Tropical Race 4 is ravaging banana plantations worldwide
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Robin Markwell
11 months
RT @hwallop: 🍌📻I've made a radio documentary for @bbcworldservice. About bananas. And how nuclear scientists are trying to use radiation to….
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A killer fungus known as Tropical Race 4 is ravaging banana plantations worldwide
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Robin Markwell
11 months
My latest documentary for the @bbcworldservice is out. It's all about the fungus threatening the world's most popular banana - the Cavendish. We travel to Colombia with @etorresb1 and to Austria with @hwallop 🍌 Thanks to @iaeaorg & @AuguraColombia 🍌
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