Adele Armstrong

BBC Journalist and Producer. Documentaries and talks @bbcradio4 and @bbcworldservice.

[Anna Foster @annaefoster]

Happy birthday FOOC! A delight to be joined by the BBC’s finest foreign correspondents to celebrate 70 years of a wonderful programme. It’s a great listen, with stories from the road aplenty, tonight at 8pm on @BBCRadio4 📻 https://t.co/hy69boe8AH

[BBC World Service @bbcworldservice]

A celebration of Braille from around the world, 200 years after it was invented.

🎧 A window into our world, through in-depth storytelling https://t.co/m5bBWV0VrX

[Prof Bob Davis @Rokewood]

And here is that final A Point of View, from the inimitable Howard Jacobson: funny & plangent; informative & provocative; demanding of the sustained attention to a single voice that so much of our #tldr culture & communication scorns.
https://t.co/JHmiDTUnaO

[Andrea Catherwood @acatherwoodnews]

Sunday mornings on @BBCRadio4 will never be the same. A Point of View, the long running topical essay, is being axed. More now on @BBCR4Feedback

[Prof Bob Davis @Rokewood]

brilliant from @adamgopnik, on the current US-Canadian crisis. Including the immediacy of that great formulation of Charles Taylor: ‘The most human question is not the isolating question “Who am I?” but the communal question “*Where* am I?”’. @BBCRadio4
https://t.co/QXYJUBSL7M

[Adele Armstrong @AdeleJArmstrong]

@RebeccaStott64 Thanks very much Rebecca. I've enjoyed every minute of it. It's been such a privilege.

[Adele Armstrong @AdeleJArmstrong]

@pezzatronic @amsterdammed @wmarybeard And me!

[BBC Current Affairs @BBC_CurrAff]

From Herodotus to Mrs Beeton to Keith Floyd…

@wmarybeard charts the long history of the Christmas pudding - and the way in which our families cultivate their own, unique festive traditions.

🎧 A Point of View on @BBCSounds.

https://t.co/AKIlW7ApaV

[Simon Hughes @SimonHughes]

@back_the_BBC @BBC
@BBCRadio4 Naughtie in his 4 episodes of Naughtie on America is just masterly. A political observer & wordsmith without equal. Thank u Jim so much. Should be required listening b4 5 Nov for all who love the US & love democracy. Go well in these momentous days.

[Prof Bob Davis @Rokewood]

My friends — this is quite brilliant from @adamgopnik on @BBCRadio4. Strikingly interpreting #Trump & #Trumpism through the 1960s optics of Hofstadter’s Paranoid Style & Boorstin’s Cult of Publicity & the Pseudo-event. Isolates so much of our perils
https://t.co/jWPpw6z50B

[Gabriel Gatehouse @ggatehouse]

The Coming Storm LIVE in the BBC Radio Theatre! @lucyproctor and I will be recording Episode 8 with an audience, answering listeners' questions and asking the brilliant @benwansell: is democracy screwed? Apply for tickets here: https://t.co/nfABvJ1HyK

[BBC Current Affairs @BBC_CurrAff]

In Praise of the Nanny State...

With the help of certain Conservative politicians, form number 48879-2039-876/WC and a rabbit hutch, Howard Jacobson takes a wry look at the advantages of a nanny state.

🎧 A Point of View on @BBCSounds.

https://t.co/IlLu6TG4pN

[Adele Armstrong @AdeleJArmstrong]

@harryhagopian Thank you!

[mary beard @wmarybeard]

A brilliant A Point of View by Sarah Dunant, on @BBCRadio4 this morning: on Tuesday's US debate, Kamala Harris and Trump on women. Here https://t.co/GzobLvMHSv

[BBC Current Affairs @BBC_CurrAff]

Change…

Will Self muses on change as he prepares for a stem cell transplant - an operation 'which will result in the greatest change in what has been a notably changeable life.'

🎧 A Point of View on @BBCSounds

https://t.co/ReJatrXFhu

[Simon O'Hagan @SimonOHagan]

Two really outstanding series running all this week on @BBCRadio4 and @BBCRadio3. Masterclasses in the medium from Carlo Gebler and @WhitlockMonica.

[BBC Current Affairs @BBC_CurrAff]

Beyond Bricks and Mortar…

Megan Nolan reflects on a generation that believes they'll never own their own home.

🎧 A Point of View on @BBCSounds.

https://t.co/uM0U8nF4WS

[Adele Armstrong @AdeleJArmstrong]

@Kate__Reid @bbccomedy @ZakGT1 Fabulous news, Kate and Zak!

[BBC Current Affairs @BBC_CurrAff]

A Point of View...

@CalebANelson on why anger is no longer a stranger to him, but a friend.

"As I've grown older, the question is not whether I should be angry - but do I love myself enough to be angry, to object when I feel wronged?"

🎧 on @BBCSounds

https://t.co/Px7vxzALtR

[Prof Bob Davis @Rokewood]

Ah quite masterful from @alexmassie & @BBCRadio4: moving, tinged with welcome melancholy, upliftingly Scottish. As my late lamented colleague Rev Stuart MacQuarrie once observed to me over a #NewYear single malt—‘Bob, sadly we’re losing even Auld Lang Zen’
https://t.co/q9HbDUactJ