Mishal Husain
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‘Today’ on Radio 4, BBC1 news. Books: ‘Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence’ & ‘The Skills: How to Win at Work’. Any views are not the BBC’s.
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The story of a family - and of India, Pakistan and Britain
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A long shot .. can anyone help me locate this portrait of my mother? It was stolen while stored in a garage in London in the 1990s and most likely ended up in a skip. But if not - it would be amazing to find it. Artist was Bernard Hailstone
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This - from 12th March - has aged well (via
@Jason_Keen
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“This is the most serious epidemic since the end of WWI. You can use the police to enforce emergency measures, and call out the military to support.”
Rory Stewart says the government has responded too slowly to coronavirus, and that tough measures need to be taken now.
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This happened today .. appreciative and rather overwhelmed as I am, I do want to say that in broadcasting, every ‘individual’ contribution comes amid a team effort. So - thank you colleagues and friends
@BBCr4today
@BBCRadio4
And of course thank you
@vlvuk
Huge congratulations to the amazing
@MishalHusain
@BBCr4today
@BBCNews
on winning the VLV Award for Best Individual Contributor to Audio
#publicservicebroadcasting
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The Westminster attacker is no more representative of Muslims than Jo Cox's killer is representative of Yorkshire
@MrBrendanCox
#r4today
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Malala condemns 'tragic & shameful' treatment of Rohingya: 'I am still waiting for my fellow Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to do the same'
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Just been talking to
@AzeemRafiq30
for tomorrow morning’s
@BBCr4today
. Clearly exhausted by the intensity of the last 24 hours but also relieved .. he talks about having his hopes and dreams in cricket shattered - and the actions now needed. Across the game
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George was a trailblazer as well as outstanding journalist and human being. I remember seeing him on screen as Africa Correspondent in the 90s, the first Asian foreign correspondent I had seen on British television. He inspired so many of us
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I *think* this was floor manager Niall confirming we were off air .. thank you to the editorial and production team who worked so hard on this in recent days - plus the audience, questioners and the debaters themselves. Picture by maestro
@JeffOvers
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I now await my family’s ‘feedback’ 😬
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Sam Gyimah on
@bbcr4today
: There is a blocking minority in the Commons for every type of Brexit .. the most sensible path for both Leavers and Remainers could be a second referendum. 'The public will not forgive us if we don't level with them about the difficult choices'
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Would be interesting to know if Boris Johnson had read the Quran when he wrote this in 2005
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A name and a face to honour. One of the two men who died standing up to hate in
#portlandattack
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The mob shouted ‘Where is Mohammed’ and then smashed his shop’s windows (Belfast, below).
And this morning
@bbcr4today
we have been hearing from Muslims in Middlesbrough who were threatened in their homes, and had property & livelihoods destroyed
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The tree that our guest editor Mina Smallman hopes will bring shade and comfort close to where her daughters were murdered. Such care and thoughtfulness to her from these two gentlemen who planted it
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Spending the day working on it 😊
‘You must be patient and not interrupt so much’, Rees-Mogg tells Mishal Husain
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Gathering my thoughts about Bill, simply too much to express. Generous colleague, outstanding individual professionally and personally. What a beautiful relationship he and Sesi had: a true partnership through life.
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George Osborne says the 'massive mistake' made by the government was to dismiss the views of Remain voters & go for '100% Brexit'. Rather than trying to prove her leave credentials he says Theresa May should have begun with the conciliatory position she's now come to
#r4today
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Closing the gender pay gap is about equality. It should matter to everyone
#equalpayday
@fawcettsociety
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I read this and then realised it was the same Irfan Halim I knew as a little boy when our fathers were doctors in S Arabia. He grew up to be one himself and now he is gone. Thinking of his family: his wife & their children, his mother, sister & brother.
انا لله وانا اليه راجعون
COVID-19: 'Incredible' NHS doctor dies with coronavirus after spending two years saving others with the infection
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More than 50 correspondents and presenters from
@SkyNews
@BBCNews
@cnni
@Channel4News
@ITN
@NBCNews
@abcnews
@CBSNews
stand together to call for access. I am among them. This by
@AlexCrawfordSky
explains 🔽
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One deeply disturbing video after another is emerging from India - this looks back and explains what we are seeing. A vital read featuring
@RanaAyyub
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A name to remember and to honour.
The Arabic means: ‘From Him we come and to Him is our return’
The Muslim man in the video who heroically sacrificed himself to stop the terrorist has been identified as Naeem Rashid from Abottabad, Pakistan. His son Talha was also killed in the attack.
Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un.
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I will never be able to handle a pomegranate as Nazanin does … here she is with Ottolenghi because at times in prison she was able to cook and she made one of his aubergine and pomegranate dishes. A conversation about food as comfort but also the grim reality of hunger strike
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The hotel where I stayed with a BBC team in 2018 after a reporting trip to southern Israel and Gaza - one of the rooms on the beach side was our on-air studio
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The
@dt_ni
and
@StephenNolan
podcast here .. not only important in the questions asked but really well crafted ⬇️
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Thinking back to all the occasions we looked through the glass to see Richard Ratcliffe in our green room, waiting patiently to come on air, finding the right words amid a diplomatic minefield & personal nightmare. Last time he brought Gabriella. Finally - they get their reunion
NEW: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - and another detained British-Iranian Anousheh Ashouri - are heading to a Tehran airport to leave the country, according to Reuters.
The news agency says it's got the information from their lawyer Hojjat Kermani.
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There is so much more I could have said .. Uzbekistan is where Ulugh Beg’s observatory was mapping stars in the 15th century, and the native region of the man from whom we get the word ‘algorithm’. But mainly this is about travels with my mother!
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Here’s what
@MuslimCouncil
has asked the Conservatives to look into. Rather than engage, Sajid Javid says they don’t represent Muslims in this country (although they are an umbrella body for 500 orgs)
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This is the extraordinary reporting for which Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested
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Mina Smallman has been speaking to us about the murder of her daughters Nicole and Bibaa last June - you can hear her at 0730
#r4today
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Today’s boss is
@herdyshepherd1
- who has left his 14 year old in charge of the farm. Parenting hero! Maybe his next book could be about that
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As heard on air this morning
@BBCr4today
we’ve unveiled the topic for next Tuesday night: how Brexit is working, exactly 3 years on from leaving the EU, with
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
@campbellclaret
8pm on the 31st of January
@BBCRadio4
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Prayers of millions being offered tonight for a remarkable humanitarian and extraordinary man. RIP Abdul Sattar
#Edhi
, your example lives on
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At a temporary UK visa processing facility in Poland - frustrations mounting as people waiting here have little clarity about when they will be seen, some have travelled for hours to get here
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Olha, draped in the Ukrainian flag, is outside Przemysl station where trains arrive from Lviv. She is here for her mother who arrived earlier but is also offering 40 places on a bus to Germany where she has families willing to host
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Female BBC stars' letter demanding equal pay to Tony Hall in full
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Quite a difference in the way the thoughtful
@RosaSilverman
take on our Svante Thunberg interview is presented in the paper vs
@telegraph
feed
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This is going to the printers next week, can’t quite believe it.. out on September 6th
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Today’s
#comfortandhope
poem. Thank you to the Gibran National Committee in Lebanon for allowing this use - and to producer
@cswift2
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After attacks in Istanbul, Dhaka, Baghdad, Medina - difficult to think of this as a happy Eid.
So my wish is for a peaceful Eid, above all
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That smile..
15 months baby first time seeing his father after
#corneal
#transplant
at
#PEBS
#Hospital
#NorthKarachi
#charity
#philanthropy
#Karachi
#Pakistan
ماشاللہ
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Had to grab a picture with him 🔽
Ahead of the 1000th episode of
@BBCRadio4
's
#InOurTime
later this morning, presenter Melvyn Bragg tells
@MishalHusain
that he 'couldn't think of a better way to spend life in work' after hosting the programme for nearly 25 years.
#R4Today
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Malala was in her chemistry lesson when her teacher came and congratulated her for winning the Nobel
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Parisiens of all ages and all backgrounds represented here
#jesuischarlie
http://t.co/9FxNU5X4Rm
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Numbers I can't get out of my head: in the last 3 weeks, 400,000 Rohingya have become refugees
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I won’t forget the dignity of a people who have lost so much. Here’s 18-yr old Zainab. I can only hope her future turns out to be brighter than it appears today
#RohingyaCrisis
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Following shocking news from
#Finsburypark
and just then - this popped up on my timeline..do watch.
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Imagine leaving this legacy at just 23 years of age
#saskiajones
To her family and friends, I'm so sorry for your loss. Saskia's dissertation was so good that I cried with pride when I marked it. I hope
@AngliaRuskin
will make it public as we at
@ARUcriminology
were amazed by the beauty and power of her words.
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Slightly snuggled look in the newsroom this evening because we are on later than usual .. 20 past 10
@bbcone
. Will lose the shawl by then
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Moments after lifting the trophy Siya Kolisi spoke of growing up wondering where his next meal was coming from. Here’s his extraordinary story - deeply significant for South Africa and beyond 🔽
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Joy - a woman came up to me on the Tube today and said ‘I love your book’! Thank you, stranger. Meanwhile, I am becoming more brazen about walking into bookshops. Today
@Waterstones
x 2 plus
@Hatchards
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Honoured to be involved in this morning’s ceremony in Parliament Square, placing the image of a woman alongside the men who stand there for the first time. Wonderful to think of Millicent Fawcett looking out at the building that represents our democracy
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Female author AND two women (my grandmothers) on the cover. This is the bound proof (thank you
@4thEstateBooks
) and yes I am banking on both men and women picking it up..
They mentioned this in the Great Lives anniversary programme and it’s really interesting. There’s a similar reluctance by men to buy books by female authors.
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Prince Harry & Meghan Markle today: they met on a blind date set up by a mutual friend and went off on holiday to Botswana not long afterwards ..
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Have been thinking in recent days about another August - 1947 - and how both my parents ended up on planes rather than the notorious trains across the new India-Pakistan border. It was a lifeline made possible by British senior officers in the final days of British India
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Thanks for tweeting us
@ukhomeoffice
- but how about a minister coming on air to discuss the scheme, as we have requested?
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The morning part of ‘election night’ on
@BBCr4today
for me .. this was tremendous fun and also fascinating to see how a cover shoot works.
@KayBurley
- didn’t we earmark the gold skirt for
@maitlis
even before she arrived?
Forget The Morning Show; Election Night 2024 is better, rawer, real… and totally British. In the thick of it all, three formidable broadcast legends:
@maitlis
,
@KayBurley
and
@MishalHusain
Tatler's August issue hits newsstands on 27th June
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Heading back to the BBC after interviewing this very happy couple. Watch later
#bbcnewssix
Congratulations Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle on their engagement!
His Royal Highness and Ms. Markle this afternoon visited Kensington Palace’s Sunken Garden for a photocall to mark the happy news.
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What it feels like when the pay gap is personal. Unflinching, articulate
@Sarah_Montague
in
@thesundaytimes
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It is done. Dry, mainly scissors with a bit of clippers: curly hair thankfully forgiving. Worst part was attitude of clients eg ‘You’re not qualified and I’m scared’
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The gold & silver for Pakistan and India in the javelin has become memorable beyond the event: for what we then learned about the relationship between the 2 (Chopra publicly saying Nadeem should be helped to get a new javelin in time for Paris) - and the way their families spoke
So much to learn here about grace and dignity. The mother’s of Neeraj Chopra and Arshad Nadeem teaching us a thing or two about love and humanity
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In this first week since ‘Broken Threads’ was released I’ve had some heartfelt responses: I appreciate them all! Here’s my great-aunt Anne, 99, when I took an early copy to her in Oldham. Thanks to her I understood my grandmother Mary’s early life and the Quinn family’s trials
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Or - taking the breaks to which they are entitled at their desks.
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Nicholas Soames says he has never before felt such a poisonous atmosphere in the Commons. He's been there 37 years
#r4today
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Here's the full
@campbellclaret
letter to Jeremy Corbyn. He tells
#r4today
Labour is no longer the party of Clement Attlee & Harold Wilson
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This will never get old! ❤️
Just in case you haven’t had enough Mo Salah’s daughter content from me
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Please Britain - don't let this be who we are
Police online hate crime reporting site True Vision has seen a 57% increase since referendum compared to last month..
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Watching
@SadiqKhan
and wondering about the chances of a Pakistani bus driver's son achieving comparable office in Pakistan
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Beautiful tribute to a colleague and man none of us will forget. He journeyed far, in work and in life.
It was an honour for me to play the piano at George Alagiah’s memorial service. Such an emotional, uplifting celebration of his life. Here’s the montage of George at work and at home for which I provided a musical accompaniment.
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Finally ready to share something I have been working on for a while and thinking about for even longer .. so here’s a 🧵 about ‘Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence’ 🔽
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When your heritage gestures become front and centre - adaab all the way for me from now
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Perfect choice for Mastermind, bravo
@CliveMyrieBBC
! So much respect and affection for this man throughout the organisation and beyond
The peerless
@CliveMyrieBBC
is to front
#Mastermind
. Clive was given a 2 minutes grilling on his new specialist subject by
@BBCSimonMcCoy
on
@BBCNews
Channel
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Garry signs off, having taught us all so much about finding and making brilliant audio moments. Picture by
@JeffOvers
After just 43 years on
@BBCr4today
and 50 at the BBC, it’s the last morning in the studio for sports presenting legend Garry Richardson. We’ll miss you.
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Ten years ago today came the shocking news that Benazir Bhutto had been assassinated. Here's
@ziadzafar
with a long and important investigation into a heinous crime
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So happy for the Yousafzais that they have been able to see Swat once again. When I stood outside their former home in 2013 it was hard to imagine the day Malala could return. Here’s what I wrote then
#welcomehomemalala
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A beautiful farewell to - and from - a brilliant broadcaster
👏
@jonsnowC4
@Channel4News
"It's been the greatest privilege of my life to bring you the news."
@jonsnowC4
signs off from Channel 4 News for the very last time after presenting the programme for 32 years.
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I wrote about recreating a journey my mother made a child, exactly 70 summers ago, for
@ftweekend
- Hunza and Baltistan, northern Pakistan
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Ignore Callum, future journalists - stick to this version of the vibe for a briefing chat
Tatler hasn’t captured the producers guzzling Diet Coke and bananas and checking the turnout figure in Amber Valley.
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Back in Kyiv tonight is
@CliveMyrieBBC
- he and I will have the news for you
@BBCOne
shortly..
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Fiyaz Mughal of
@TellMamaUK
says
@BorisJohnson
column amounts to Islamophobia. Says there's been no follow up from Conservative Party to his June meeting with them over complaints of anti-Muslim incidents
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A detail within this: the doctor’s wife is breastfeeding orphaned Aya alongside her own 4-month old
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Don't think anyone who heard Sue Martin speak on
@bbcr4today
in April will have forgotten it .. we have now gone back to her and spoken to Mal for the first time. An incredible story of survival and love - also sobering on what consequences of Covid can be
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A true leader
"Racism exists, but it is not welcome here." New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern received a standing ovation as she addressed the crowd during a national memorial service honoring the 50 people who died in the mass shootings in Christchurch
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Saluting you all and thinking of your families
#restinpeace
Almost 200 NHS staff have lost their lives during the coronavirus pandemic. Every person is equally valued and here we pay tribute to those from our British Asian communities.
Voiced by BBC News presenter
@MishalHusain
and actor
@TvSanjeev
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Svante Thunberg tells us he did not support Greta’s climate strike but has seen how his daughter - who has Aspergers and has had severe depression - has gained energy and happiness from her campaigning
#r4today
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