Director of Comms, Cambridge University Health Partners. Former BBC Correspondent and a real asset at parties.

Joined June 2010
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I’ve written a novel. ‘“Not-something” has re-written the rules of science fiction comedy’, said absolutely no-one. Paperback and hardback coming soon. a.co/d/1h9WZ7e
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Pitch-side punditry just doesn’t work. It’s so obviously too loud and distracting. Don’t kid yourself it adds atmosphere tv producers - it’s crap tv - I can’t bloody hear #GuinnessM6N
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THE NIGHT SKY ON MARS LOOKS INSANE Imagine standing on Martian soil under a sky so dense with stars it feels unreal. That’s the view - no atmosphere to blur it, no city lights to drown it out. How long until we’re the ones under that sky?
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The original image (PIA22960) does not show any stars. photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA229… Here are real photos of the night sky on Mars: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multi… mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/773… web.archive.org/web/2015111721…
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10 Apr 2025
🎙️ New podcast! What’s the recipe for a healthier food system? 🍏 @BBCwestcott chats with Jonathan Stieglitz, @TSEinfo & Martin White @BennettInst about global diet challenges, public health, and building sustainable, accessible food systems. Listen at pod.fo/e/2c3eac
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3 Mar 2025
🎙️ New podcast! Can Europe ever catch up with the US in tech? 🚀 @BBCwestcott talks to @DianeCoyle1859, and @TSEinfo's Jacques Crémer & Paul Seabright about Europe’s place in the global tech race. Should Europe compete or carve its own path? Listen now pod.fo/e/2b3dba
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Am I going mad…is this a real plane? Not anything I know….twin tail, belly air intake…I thought I knew planes
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Former Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull: “When you see Trump with Putin, as I have on a few occasions, he’s like the 12-year-old boy that goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. ‘My hero!’ It’s really creepy…the creepiness was palpable”
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Fantastic, insightful guests, terrible presenter
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Please subscribe you lovely people - I want to get decent numbers for my first episode - lots of v smart people giving great insights - (and me) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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Amazing institute and delighted to take over presenting duties from the one and only @ruskin147 - covering children’s mental health next with a brilliant AI project to diagnose sooner
Very topical to be recording our first episode of Season 4 of Crossing Channels featuring our new podcast host @BBCwestcott talking to @AlisonLiebling @ArnaudPhilipp & Nicola Padfield about "Does Prison Work?" Available on 7 October. 🎧Previous episodes: podfollow.com/crossing-chann…
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Very topical to be recording our first episode of Season 4 of Crossing Channels featuring our new podcast host @BBCwestcott talking to @AlisonLiebling @ArnaudPhilipp & Nicola Padfield about "Does Prison Work?" Available on 7 October. 🎧Previous episodes: podfollow.com/crossing-chann…
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An incredible moment in music history as in 1970 ELTON JOHN takes out a crumpled piece of paper and plays TINY DANCER for the first time in front of his lyricist BERNIE TAUPIN, along with his wife MAXINE, who he wrote the song for.
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11 May 2024
As you watch the Aurora this evening, it’s worth reflecting that you’re getting a rare direct glimpse of the power of Nature. Those charged particles causing the atmosphere to glow came from a sunspot complex 17 times the diameter of Earth and traveled across 90 million miles at a million miles an hour. Without our magnetic field to protect us, our atmosphere would have been lost to space long ago. Those colours in the sky are Nature reminding us that we’re very lucky to be here amidst the violence. And perhaps therefore also reminding us not to shite it all up :-)
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27 Feb 2024
On February 20, 1970, Keith Sapsford, a 14-year-old Australian teenager, entered Sydney Airport and concealed himself in the wheel well of a plane bound for Japan. Known for his curiosity, Keith saw this as an adventurous escapade. Tragically, not long after takeoff, he fell 200 feet to his doom. This harrowing moment was inadvertently captured by John Gilpin, an amateur photographer, who was testing his new camera lens at the airport and took this poignant photo just before the calamity occurred.
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.@radeksikorski on 🔥. The kind of diplomacy I can get behind. Everyone should watch this clip today

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Where’s the ball? 😂
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Note to innocent people being chased by bad guys in films. Don’t use your bloody mobile phone or credit card. Every time. It’s a basic…
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