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Sheila Cook

@Sheila_Cook1

Freelance journalist and BBC radio producer

 United Kingdom
Joined June 2010
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Witness History on Radio 4 was interesting. But it's no replacement for A Point of View. #APointOfView
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Gerry Lynch
@gerrylynch4 Apr 2025
My @ChurchTimes radio column this week is mainly an elegy for A Point of View, whose cancellation by the BBC is a great loss that can't make financial sense. (Link in next tweet).
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Sad to see @BBCRadio4 ending A Point of View without fanfare. @RebeccaStott64 on her mother’s Kenwood, @AdamGopnik on honours, Michael Morpurgo’s “Tractors in Whitehall,” and Clive James’s “Clams are Happy”—words matter. Please @BBCSounds, make it all available. #APointOfView
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@BBCRadio4 sad to see 'A Point of View' being dumped by R4, to be replaced by a history programme, which doesn't seem to be able to find a home elsewhere.
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Chris Dod@ChrisDod130 Mar 2025
Why on God's earth are BBC Radio 4 ending "A point of view" ? Sunday mornings will never be the same. They have been excellent. So why @BBCRadio4 ? Just why ? Shutting down intelligent comment?
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BBC Radio 4 is axing its weekly essay 'A Point of View'. Here's my point of view on this sad news: robeastaway.com/blog/point-o…
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Sunday mornings on @BBCRadio4 will never be the same. A Point of View, the long running topical essay, is being axed. More now on @BBCR4Feedback
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Very sad to be losing #APointOfView from @BBCRadio4 on Sunday mornings. This topical comment/essay offered a secular reflection that so aptly followed R4’s broadcast Sunday worship. Not to mention its almost sacred status given its longevity. What would Alistair Cooke have said?
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Cannot believe that @BBCRadio4 has cut #APointofView. An intelligent, thoughtful essay on a topical issue, there is nothing else quite like it on radio. This morning’s final episode was the perfect swansong. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00297…

A Point of View - Our Revels Now Are Ended - BBC Sounds

Howard Jacobson presents the final edition of A Point of View.

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Tom Shakespeare's 'A Point of View' on BBCR4 this morning - superb! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00283…
A Point of View - Print the Legend - BBC Sounds

A Point of View - Print the Legend - BBC Sounds

Tom Shakespeare explores the pitfalls of dramatised history and its influence on real life

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David Clover@dac3uk3 Nov 2024
#BBCRadio4 An outstanding radio essay on the US election by James Naughtie this morning. Absolutely in the same class of writing and delivery as Alastair Cooke’s used to be. More Naughtie essays please BBC.
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@back_the_BBC @BBC @BBCRadio4 Naughtie in his 4 episodes of Naughtie on America is just masterly. A political observer & wordsmith without equal. Thank u Jim so much. Should be required listening b4 5 Nov for all who love the US & love democracy. Go well in these momentous days.
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Tom Jamieson@jamiesont3 Nov 2024
This is excellent as ever. James Naughtie has rare insight into American elections. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0024f…
A Point of View - Naughtie on America - The Brink - BBC Sounds

A Point of View - Naughtie on America - The Brink - BBC Sounds

James Naughtie recalls a meeting with an ex-CIA chief worried about the future of America

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Wow what great praise, thank you so much Maynard
Maynard Manyowa (@iAmKudaMaynard) profile pictureMaynard Manyowa
@iAmKudaMaynard23 May 2024
This is probably the best documentary I have listened to, ever. And I say this as an absolute lover of audio documentaries. To Catch A Scorpion by the legendary @SueM1tchell is a riveting, thought-provoking and intense high quality production. You have to listen to this
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Powerful article by the brilliant @LauraDockrill, I had the pleasure of working with Laura on #FourThought for @BBCRadio4 which you can listen to here bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000zl0…
BBC Radio 4 - Four Thought, And They Said We'd Be Glowing

BBC Radio 4 - Four Thought, And They Said We'd Be Glowing

Laura Dockrill describes her frightening experience of post partum psychosis.

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@DailyMailUK2 May 2024
'It was alarming how fast my illness escalated into an emergency scenario' @LauraDockrill couldn't wait to be a mother - but within days of her son's birth she had descended into a hellish spiral of paranoia and delusions 👇

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Thanks for this. A brief and excellent insight into sibling dynamics when one has a lifelong disability – and leavened by humour.
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ICYMI those proverbial rabbit holes it's so easy to disappear down ... This delightful and illuminating 'A Point of View' bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w8t…
BBC Radio 4 - A Point of View, Down the Rabbit Hole

BBC Radio 4 - A Point of View, Down the Rabbit Hole

Rebecca Stott reflects on what's to be gained by going 'down the rabbit hole'.

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Howard Jacobson - that was a fab Point of View. Your homage to Martin Amis was kindly. Yet for me, you are a better and funnier writer than he. 👏 #bbcbh
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Could listen to Howard Jacobson ALL day. Whether I agree with all he says or not. Now in all his poetic brilliance @BBCRadio4 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001m54…
BBC Radio 4 - A Point of View, Taking Hammer to Gill

BBC Radio 4 - A Point of View, Taking Hammer to Gill

Howard Jacobson says an attack on Eric Gill's sculpture is a failure to understand art.

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