Executive producer of The Global Story at @BBCNews • produced The Wargame for @tortoise & @skynews • previously @thetimes • 3x gold @WeAreAudioUK awards
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13 Sep 2025
The BBC’s new world news podcast is up and running. Every weekday, one big story, with BBC correspondents around the world. Built by a transatlantic production team with huge experience at the BBC and at NPR, NYT, The Times, Tortoise, The Guardian, Wondery, Pineapple, you name it
5 Sep 2025
Riviera or statehood: the future of Gaza - two opposing visions for a post-war Gaza with BBC International Editor @BowenBBC
🎧 Global perspectives on one big story bbc.in/4p0saLb
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James Shield retweeted
Apr 4
I am told that members of the Cabinet have listened to the Wargame podcast, which opens with several vicious attacks on unarmed personnel near their bases… And yet…. 🤷♀️
The Ministry of Defence is briefing the press that this is not an operational threat because the bases are known. That shows an inherent lack of understanding about the threat.
While the location of the bases are not secret, personal details of staff and their relatives gleaned from the app could provide adversaries with useful intelligence about staff and military operations.
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10 Jun 2025
A few photos from the day of the recording back in April. 46 people in the cast and crew, 27 mics, over 235,000 words on tape, and only one chance to get it right.
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James Shield retweeted
19 Jun 2025
Five stars for The Wargame in The Times
“Frightening and brilliant”
thetimes.com/article/5b1c4ba…
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James Shield retweeted
Mar 22
Given the understandable focus this weekend on the UK’s lack of air defences, I’m reposting a link to The Wargame podcast
Last April, we simulated a Russian ballistic and cruise missile attack on the UK and how a fictional government COBR might respond
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Mar 16
We ran a special essay from Jeremy Bowen on The Global Story over the weekend. On how each Gulf war planted the seeds of the next:
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Mar 16
Our episode on the Iran school strike. Was it a war crime?
With BBC Verify's @MerlynThomas and Yale international law professor @oonahathaway youtube.com/watch?v=FGdX9XUl…
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Feb 5
I suppose we should be flattered that Die Welt has ripped off The Wargame quite so comprehensively
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Jan 8
🔴 As early as the first Trump administration, US officials were gaming out a post-Maduro Venezuela
The BBC spoke to one man who was in the room for the war games
@asmamk's full interview on The Global Story podcast:
bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct71g…
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Jan 7
The US ran a war game on the aftermath of Maduro’s fall. It predicted chaos
@BBCNews spoke to someone who was in the room for several war games with US government officials, who says every scenario ended in disaster
@asmamk’s full interview:
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct71…
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James Shield retweeted
25 Nov 2025
Just catching up with this podcast, war gaming a Russian attack on the UK. The most gripping and chilling thing I've heard for a long time. Excellent input from many, including @LucyGoBag
Essential listening.
False Flag | The Wargame Ep 1 youtu.be/9LEbjMAkU4I?si=qktW… via @YouTube
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21 Dec 2025
Thank you to @SamuelAgini for choosing The Wargame – a podcast – as his ‘favourite non-FT article of the year’ on the grounds that he can’t read 😂
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20 Dec 2025
I started reading the Economist when I was 19, on my lunch breaks at the ethernet cable factory in Glenrothes. I liked that it didn’t talk down to its readers too much. Anyway, it’s exciting that The Wargame is in their picks of the year. I hope someone in Glenrothes enjoys it.
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James Shield retweeted
11 Dec 2025
Highly commended for Innovation of the Year are @SkyNews / @tortoise for The Wargame. @haynesdeborah @jshield @JBSwinburne96 Tom Kinsella @Katy_Scholes Jasper Corbett @paulstanworth @swhiteheadsky @DavidMapstone #BJA2025
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22 Nov 2025
Four programmes I edited for the @bbcworldservice this week
bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xtvs…
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4 Nov 2025
Jobs like this don’t come up very often. The BBC is hiring a senior producer to work on the legendary Profile – in my opinion one of the best programmes on Radio 4 – and AntiSocial. Deadline 17th November:
careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior…
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1 Nov 2025
One of the reasons I really wanted to do this story on the pod —
Polling shows a majority of Americans (80 %) seem to adore Canada.
Only about 1/3 of Canadians have a favorable view of the United States.
So what’s the long/term consequences of this trade tension?
30 Oct 2025
Why the US-Canada relationship is on shaky ground
🎧 Global perspectives on one big story bbc.in/4qs6fgp
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17 Oct 2025
A month in the life of Ghada Al-Kurd, a freelance journalist from Gaza City.
🎧 Global perspectives on one big story bbc.in/4q7yEIt
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James Shield retweeted
10 Oct 2025
Today’s episode of The Global Story podcast is a MUST-LISTEN
We hear from a young mother in Gaza who gave birth during the war, an Israeli man whose brothers have been held hostage for 2 years, plus our BBC colleague @tombateman
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James Shield retweeted
10 Oct 2025
The speed the Americans forced through the Trump Gaza deal is likely to be its blessing and its curse.
I spoke to @asmamk and Tristan Redman about the days ahead in another Global Story special
bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct714r (international)
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct71… (UK)
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