Tim Franks
@BBCTimFranks
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Presenter of Newshour on BBC World Service radio. Previously, an award-winning BBC foreign correspondent. RTs not endorsements.
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Joined February 2010
Typical style and swish not so much from Peter Mandelson but the brilliant @GeorgeWParker @FTMag
NEW - Peter Mandelson interview with the @FTMag: “I’ve always been capable of being diplomatic.” Reveals that George W Bush calls him "Silvertongue". His Trump World critics "young minds ploughing their own furrow on a sea of too much inauguration alcohol"
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@kaiav11 My dear chap, I'll see your plate, and raise you my vegetarian xmas meal from the BBC canteen. Granted, it wasn't £75 a head.......
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And bonus ingredient of me "crashing the post" like an absolute idiot......
Hey, fellow book nerds: I had the pleasure of putting @jackbenedwards on air today to discuss the power of BookTok and the popularity of Dostoyevsky’s ‘White Nights’. Tune in at 45 past to hear Jack talking to the BBC’s Tim Franks:
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RT @RosemarieNorth: Heartbreaking & hopeful reporting on Syria 🇸🇾 including interviews with former political prisoner @omarAlshogre & compo…
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RT @EmCLew: Much of Syrian composer @MalekJandali's music is inspired by the protest chants of the 2011 uprising. Today, he hopes the fall…
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I'm not sure I've ever hearted a tweet if that's what we still call it. Anyway, HEART @trafalgartree And I'm not -- as people who know me will testify -- a big xmas tree person
Instead of celebrating my iconic arrival, some of you thought that mocking me will boost your likes? Cute 💅 Since 1947, I’ve stood tall as Norway���s fir-mly rooted thank-you - I’m a timeless symbol of unity, not your clickbait. 🎄 Find out more 👇
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..... - democracy is strong; it will survive in South Korea - he asks the military to listen to the parliament, and not the president Full interview will be on Newshour @bbcworldservice at 2100GMT 2/2
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More than ten years ago, I interviewed Fethullah Gülen. It was one of those interviews was a very big deal at the time.........but where the top line remained elusive. Maybe that was the point.
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Auden, paraphrasing Valéry: "A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
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Whether you think @POTUS should stay in the race or drop out -- this is a magnificent pay-off from the Lexington column in @TheEconomist
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@hkillcoyne @raziaiqbal Thank you very much @hkillcoyne -- delighted to have you listening to the show
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@Ostrov_A @bbcworldservice Good evening, Arsen. We were very grateful that you offered to do the interview, but we stood you down when we managed to get a former Israeli Prime Minister on to explain why he thought the ICC prosecutor's application was wrong.
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@jamesandtrains Dear @jamesandtrains -- thank you for your kind enquiry. I'm doing the late edition today and tomorrow as it happens........but you're right, I am doing more of a mix these days. An end to the endless late nights! Thanks for listening.
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"......there was no turbulence, no nothing, it was like the whole thing just stopped." Full interview on Newshour @bbcworldservice at 13GMT
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