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Robin Markwell @robinmarkwell

Producer & Reporter for @BBCRadio4 and @bbcworldservice. Formerly @bbcpolitics, @bbcpointswest, @bbcpoliticswest and @bbcnews 📻 📺🎙 Trustee @DrJennersHouse

Joined July 2009
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Robin Markwell@robinmarkwell
15 Mar 2024
Out now - my documentary on excessive sand mining in the Mekong. Yup, another environmental crisis to worry about but the programme comes with solutions too! Big thanks to @VinceBeiser, @marcgoichot Pascal Peduzzi from @UNEP, Julian Leyland & @_andy_ball bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6p3…

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Running out of sand

Sand mining is fuelling Cambodia's construction boom but at what cost to the environment?

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Lettuce harvesters, mushroom suckers and a robot sheepdog. I explored the role of robots in agriculture in my latest #OnYourFarm for @BBCRadio4 with robo-enthusiast Prof Simon Pearson from @LIATLincoln of @unilincoln 🤖 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002smv…

BBC Radio 4 - On Your Farm, Robocrops

Robin Markwell explores the future of robots in agriculture at the University of Lincoln.

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A huge year for the @sagradafamilia in #Barcelona as it prepares to welcome the Pope, marks 100 years since Gaudí's death and it finally nears completion (one façade still to go!) This was a real eye-opener to make with fellow journo Lluis Amiguet bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0n0gf…

The Documentary Podcast - The Gaudí code - BBC Sounds

How Spain’s Sagrada Família went global

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Emma Harding@EmmaHarding01
Feb 10
Drama in Schools: an unfolding tragedy? Actor Christopher Eccleston investigates the decline in #drama education in schools in England. 4pm Tues 10 Feb @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds Producer @robinmarkwell #education #schools bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r4r…

BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, Drama in Schools: An Unfolding Tragedy?

The actor Christopher Eccleston investigates the decline in drama education in schools.

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BBC World Service
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1 Aug 2025
Chuquicamata: Chile's abandoned mining town - by 2007, the town lay abandoned after its 25,000 residents left due to pollution concerns. 🎧 Hear the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there bbc.in/4lXpnjU

BBC World Service - Witness History, Chuquicamata: Chile's abandoned mining town

By 2007, the town lay abandoned after its 25,000 residents left due to pollution concerns

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Delighted to present and produce this for @bbcradio4 - fascinating episode in British history - still on @BBCSounds if you were busy watching the Lionesses win the football when it aired!
Save Redland Library@SaveRedlandLibr
27 Jul 2025
7:15pm TODAY on ⁦@BBCRadio4⁩ Don't Lose Your Head! Illuminated A vicar takes on a church and discovers the head of the 14th-century Archbishop of Canterbury Simon of Sudbury in the vestry. Is it time to reunite his head with his body? bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002gd0…
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Thrilled to be back on From Our Own Correspondent on @BBCRadio4 this morning with a report from the ghost town of Chuquicamata in the Atacama desert in Chile. Have a listen at bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002gcv… 📻🌎🇨🇱
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20 Jun 2025
How can Chile satisfy an electrifying world’s hunger for copper and at what cost? 🎧 A window into our world, through in-depth storytelling bbc.in/4efDdv0

BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast, The copper kingdom

How can Chile satisfy an electrifying world’s hunger for copper and at what cost?

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Big thanks to @thetimes for recommending my latest documentary, this time about copper and Chile. Aired today on the @bbcworldservice Catch it now on @BBCSounds 📻 🇨🇱
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Thanks for being part of the programme @RosieDuffield1 - albeit inadvertently!
Rosie Duffield MP
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30 May 2025
Accidentally hearing myself pop up on @BBCRadio4's @BBCFoodProg talking about fake sourdough products (or 'sourfaux') on supermarket shelves during an @CommonsEFRA session may be the single most middle-class thing that's ever happened to me!
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Fab day with the @foodmuseumuk in Suffolk talking the history of school dinners for an @BBCRadio4 Food Programme going out today. Turkey twizzlers, gloopy gravy and lumpy custard abound! instagram.com/reel/DJZOXh7om…

Food Museum (@foodmuseumuk) • Instagram reel

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Comments made on this week's Any Questions in Epperstone making the news...BBC News - Labour minister sorry over grooming gangs 'dog whistle' remark - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2ew…

Labour minister Lucy Powell sorry over grooming gangs 'dog whistle' remark

Leader of the Commons Lucy Powell has sought to clarify comments she made in "the heat of" a radio debate.

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Just back from Chile for a @bbcworldservice documentary called The Copper Kingdom. Chile produces a quarter of the world's copper but at what cost to the environment? I've been investigating at the world's largest open pit mine in the Atacama desert. Airing in June 📻 🌎 🇨🇱
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This was a delightful afternoon in the Somerset countryside with the @thatchers_cider team for @bbcradio4 featuring most kinds of weather! Big thanks to producer Jo Peacey and @honestimbritney bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0029y…

On Your Farm - Apples All Over - BBC Sounds

Robin Markwell visits a new orchard being planted in Somerset.

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Dale Vince
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15 Mar 2025
Speaking to Radio 4 at FGR this afternoon, about food for a change...;)
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Very grateful to the Smithfield traders for being so welcoming and allowing me to see some butchery up close. A fascinating topic and so much history - this was a real pleasure to make. You can catch it again here... bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00289…

The Food Programme - Closing London's 'Kitchen of the Universe' - BBC Sounds

Sheila Dillon examines the impact of closing Smithfield and Billingsgate markets in London

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The Food Programme@BBCFoodProg
28 Feb 2025
A 3am wake-up call to join the meat traders of Smithfield Market for this week's prog. The @cityoflondon is closing both Smithfield and the Billingsgate fish market so what will it mean for our food security? Feat. @Aliciajweston @drmatthewgreen @carolynsteel @ProfTimLang🥩🐟📻
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Today's two offices couldn't be much more different. For two separate programmes on @BBCRadio4 but both with some form of butchery at their heart!
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On today's @BBCFoodProg on @BBCRadio4 with @jaegawise - as Dry January comes to a close, how the alcohol free drinks movement is booming and when did AF beer become tasty? with particular thanks to @joinclubsoda @KAMInsight @LuckySaintBeer @WiperAndTrue @BrisBeerFactory 🍺
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I made this for @BBCRadio4 this morn with @jaegawise and featuring @GordonBrown. How did Britain become a Food Bank Nation? With huge thanks to the @brisnwfoodbank & @CommunityShops Really grateful to all those who shared their stories 🙏📻 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00269…

The Food Programme - Food Bank Nation - BBC Sounds

Jaega Wise investigates the rise of the food bank in the UK and interviews Gordon Brown.

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A great listen and thanks for selecting some of our Food Programme for @bbcradio4 featuring @MichaelRosenYes and a certain delicious poem about cake too.
Antaine Mac Aoidh 🏳️‍🌈@antainemacaoidh
1 Dec 2024
Sean Rafferty harvests the cream of the crop audio wise on Pick @BBCRadio4 tonight at 1815, including @charlottebsmith @Auntie_Flo @RochesterCathed @DonaldMacleod01 @wisemandebbie and more… plus, not just one but TWO nods to The Archers! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025m7…
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Thrilled to have former PM @GordonBrown on the @BBCFoodProg for @BBCRadio4 with @jaegawise. We're looking at the evolution of the Food Bank. Coming soon to your 📻
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