BBC current affairs reporter, especially covering Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet states, Africa and Middle East
Joined February 2011
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Beautiful programme about the battle over the Russian language in Ukraine at war from @BBCTimWhewell and mixed by @flayvin.
Keep funding the BBC! You won’t find this elsewhere… bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00317…
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Majority Russian-speaking city in Ukraine considers language ban in the arts bbc.in/4cvTyMo
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RIP to Crossing Continents, my favourite BBC podcast which is being cut next year.
I guess doing investigative journalism costs too much compared to getting some talking heads into a studio.
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The BBC cuts are all horrid news, but personally losing Crossing Continents - a radio show that's brought my attention to so many global stories I'd otherwise have missed - is really bad
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“In all an estimated 700,000 Palestinians lost their homes and became refugees as a result of the war of 1948-49; around 200,000 are believed to have crowded into that tiny coastal corridor.” Deeply moving piece by @BBCTimWhewell
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A moving human story! ↔️ Here is @BBCTimWhewell , presenter of 'A People's History of Gaza' (documentary podcast is on @BBCSounds) in an In-Depth piece: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c874…
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A People's History of Gaza - a great new listen from @BBCTimWhewell bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002l1…
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13m Syrians - half the population - left their homes during #Syria’s 13-year civil war. 7m were internally displaced. 6m fled abroad. Bringing them home is perhaps the biggest challenge facing Syria's new rulers. @BBCTimWhewell follows returnees to #Homs to see what’s they find…
As Donald Trump says he’ll lift sanctions on #Syria, what are the prospects for bringing home the millions of Syrians forced to flee during the civil war? My report from #Homs #حمص bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6rb…
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With @LucyAAsh - a story of religious conversion you probably haven’t heard about before… bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002bsx…
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Na BBC pojawił się wyważony, a przy tym sympatyzujący z argumentami przeciwników gloryfikacji UPA materiał o Rzezi Wołyńskiej i problemie ekshumacji autorstwa @BBCTimWhewell. Cytowana jest m.in. @KarolaAdamiec, Leon Popek, @viatrovych @SPlokhy, a także ja sam. W listopadzie byłem z autorem w Bazaltowem (dawniej: Janowa Dolina) i opowiadałem mu o okolicznościach Rzezi i problemach w stosunkach polsko-ukraińskich.
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Hamas was opposed to their music and the Israelis bombed their instruments and installations but the children of #gaza are still singing. Beautiful & heartbreaking by @BBCTimWhewell @PennyMurphy @bbcworldservice bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5m…
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An excellent documentary on the Volyn Massacre by BBC’s Tim Whewell. Sheds more light on Polish-Ukrainian complicated history, Bandera, UPA etc
The tens of thousands of ghosts haunting #Poland’s relations with its ally, #Ukraine
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An excellent radio report - "Poland's Goast - Ukraine's Heroes" by @BBCTimWhewell - bringing to English-speaking listeners around the world the issue of the Volyn massacre and the heroisation by Ukraine of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army - the formation responsible for the genocide of the Poles and later defending western Ukraine against Sovietisation.
The @BBCNews programme features @KarolaAdamiec from @PojednaniePLUA , Leon Popek from @ipngovpl_eng , @viatrovych - a former head of @Uinp_gov_ua and myself, as well as witnesses to the massacre. The author, visited, among other places, Kysylyn and Bazaltove (former name: Janowa Dolina), where I told him about the complicated Polish-Ukrainian relations in the November cold. He also quoted Poland’s and Ukraine’s ministers of foreign affairs, @andrii_sybiha and @sikorskiradek
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Reporter @BBCTimWhewell travels through Poland and western Ukraine to try to find out what really happened in 1943, and ask whether Poland and Ukraine can ever lay a fiercely-contested history to rest.
@BBCRadio4 @KarolaAdamiec
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Singing in Gaza: 🎶"Amid the rubble, in makeshift tents, children in Gaza are singing - & practising violin, guitar & traditional instruments such as ‘oud. The sessions are organised by the local branch of the Palestinian national music conservatory..." bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024mx…
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This is a must-listen programme on #musicians in #Gaza, doing what they can to let the music play on, made by @BBCTimWhewell broadcast on @BBCRadio4: tinyurl.com/mxuyc54j. PS Our current series will feature ney-player #FarisIshaq from Bethlehem, on 4th Dec.
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This is an incredibly moving story from @BBCTimWhewell. Listen to the full programme here:
Singing in Gaza: Why children in Gaza are learning music, despite the war - and how the territory's only concert grand piano is surviving the conflict. bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5mt…
Gaza’s only concert grand piano becomes image of hope bbc.in/3Yjie2B
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Such a moving programme from @BBCTimWhewell about kids getting music lessons in #Gaza as the bombs fall around them. Proof that we all need #music and arts even at the worst of times bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0024m…
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Oh thank you @BBCRadio4. What a profoundly moving programme with truly inspirational voices. The resilience, bravery & goodness of people showcased: we need more of them @BBCTimWhewell bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024mx…
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Gaza’s only concert grand piano becomes image of hope bbc.in/3Yjie2B