Polly Evans
@Polly_Evans
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Broadcast Producer | Ex BBC Anchor & Correspondent | Ex Head of Comms | Views all mine | Welsh
London, England
Joined March 2009
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Help E Taylor raise money to support Macmillan Cancer Support
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An uplifting and emotional trek - 15 miles through the beautiful Wye Valley 🏴🏴 - for @macmillancancer yesterday. Sweltering temperatures but so worth it and made even more poignant by the supporter who stopped us to donate £50 after losing his wife to cancer last year 💚💚💚
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@MarkIMardell encapsulates perfectly the point of our @BVAVoice event on 23/09 in this great article on his wonderful podcast Movers and Shakers @moversand6 So excited that he's involved, along with @ed_lyon @polly_evans @NickyGSLT and Dr Thomas Moors https://t.co/hgHqimu0ug
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Tim Adams joins Jeremy Paxman and five high-flying friends as they record the second series of their unmissable podcast about living with the disease
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I've been so touched by the messages of support I've received, I'm also pleased that it's resonated with people going through their own struggles. I blogged here about how I skilled up, reached out and calmed down to turn a crisis around
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I was presenting on live television, but when I opened my mouth to speak nothing came out. Sounds like the stuff of nightmares, but it’s a true story.
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When I lost my voice on live television it was the stuff of nightmares, but the path to finding my voice again has brought me into contact with some incredible people, not least @sianwilliams100 who I spoke to this week on Life Changing on @BBCRadio4
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Polly put everything into her profession. But in one live TV moment, it all went wrong.
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So sad to read this, @SparksyOnRadio was a lovely man. A warm, funny and kind colleague | Gordon Sparks death: BBC Radio host dies aged 61 after cancer battle | Daily Mail Online
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The radio host was being treated at St Luke's Hospice in Plymouth until his death, with stars and heartbroken colleagues sharing tributes after his passing.
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Father of UK teenager blames social media for exposing her to ‘bleakest of worlds’ | Financial Times
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Ian Russell tells inquest that his daughter Molly, who killed herself, was exposed to huge volume of graphic posts
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You know these women will have had to fight for respect from the first moment they picked up the ball - Lets f**king go girls! @Lionesses #lionesses
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ENGLAND HAVE DONE IT! They are #Euro2022 semi-finalists. #WEURO2022 #BBCEuros #BBCFootball #Lionesses
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The next PM may well be from an ethnic minority. That’s a big deal – and a challenge for Labour | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian
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If Starmer’s party is seen as one that values minorities only when they need protection, solid sources of votes will dry up, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Lovely thread about my hometown
I love Cardiff. For those of you who don't know it (and many who do) let me tell you about a 20 minute walk you can do in the city centre where there is loads of history hidden in plain sight: Thread
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NEW: Young people who met the alleged gunman online said he had threatened to kidnap and rape. But they said their reports were ignored, or that his kind of angry misogyny was just “how online is.” w/ @SilviaElenaFF @NaomiNixWrites @drewharwell
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Teen girls and young women who met Uvalde gunman Salvador Ramos online said he sometimes threatened to rape or kill. But some said their reports were ignored, that the threats were too vague, or that...
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Amerie Jo Garza's father, a med aide, says he found out she was one of the victims when he arrived on the scene and was helping another little girl covered in blood. She told him her best friend had been shot. When he asked her name, she said his daughter's. There aren't words.
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I think it is important to be detailed because to say this was a "shooting" is sanitary. Children that young were killed by a weapon that shatters. Young kids would not have identification; they may not be recognizable. There are so many of them. Authorities are figuring 1/
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Rape as a weapon: huge scale of sexual violence endured in Ukraine emerges
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Women and girls have recounted the abuse they have suffered at the hands of Russian soldiers
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Footage obtained by BBC South East shows the moment P&O Ferries staff were informed they had lost their jobs.
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For those enjoying Donnie the Irish Terrier's success at Crufts, here's our gorgeous Dotty who's egging him on, and would like to point out that the shaggy look is worthy of respect too...
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