Tim Franks

Presenter of Newshour on BBC World Service radio. Previously, an award-winning BBC foreign correspondent. RTs not endorsements.

[Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks]

@Baddiel you could begin by keeping kosher. Just a thought

[Gordon Corera @gordoncorera]

REVEALED: MI6 ran a molehunt in the 1990s after a CIA lead that the Russians had recruited an MI6 officer. Fears were of 'another Philby'. The hunt went on for years and was ultimately labelled 'inconclusive'. More details in the "The Spy in the Archive" - out in the UK next week

[Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks]

Typical style and swish not so much from Peter Mandelson but the brilliant @GeorgeWParker @FTMag

[George Parker @GeorgeWParker]

NEW - Peter Mandelson interview with the @FTMag: “I’ve always been capable of being diplomatic.” Reveals that George W Bush calls him "Silvertongue". His Trump World critics "young minds ploughing their own furrow on a sea of too much inauguration alcohol"
https://t.co/Ss3gbbgIil

[Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks]

@jennyhillBBC @AliFaisalZaidi Congratulations! Delighted for you

[Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks]

@kaiav11 My dear chap, I'll see your plate, and raise you my vegetarian xmas meal from the BBC canteen. Granted, it wasn't £75 a head.......

[Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks]

And bonus ingredient of me "crashing the post" like an absolute idiot......

[Bella Gerber-Johnstone @bella_zooey]

Hey, fellow book nerds: I had the pleasure of putting @jackbenedwards on air today to discuss the power of BookTok and the popularity of Dostoyevsky’s ‘White Nights’. Tune in at 45 past to hear Jack talking to the BBC’s Tim Franks: https://t.co/VOKUQCOfyT

[Rosemarie North @RosemarieNorth]

Heartbreaking & hopeful reporting on Syria 🇸🇾 including interviews with former political prisoner @omarAlshogre & composer @MalekJandali, by @BBCTimFranks & the NewsHour team at @bbcworldservice. https://t.co/KVz2Q7PtbK

[Emily Lewis @EmCLew]

Much of Syrian composer @MalekJandali's music is inspired by the protest chants of the 2011 uprising. Today, he hopes the fall of Assad can create a "symphony of peace"

A real privilege to produce this interview with @BBCTimFranks. Listen here from 39:30

https://t.co/eKg6X3QEmW

[Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks]

I'm not sure I've ever hearted a tweet if that's what we still call it.

Anyway, HEART @trafalgartree

And I'm not -- as people who know me will testify -- a big xmas tree person

[Trafalgar Square Tree @trafalgartree]

Instead of celebrating my iconic arrival, some of you thought that mocking me will boost your likes? Cute 💅

Since 1947, I’ve stood tall as Norway’s fir-mly rooted thank-you - I’m a timeless symbol of unity, not your clickbait. 🎄

Find out more 👇
https://t.co/Qos16OjXi2

[Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks]

.....
- democracy is strong; it will survive in South Korea
- he asks the military to listen to the parliament, and not the president

Full interview will be on Newshour @bbcworldservice at 2100GMT

2/2

[Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks]

I've just done extraordinary interview with South Korean MP Hong Kiwon from inside chamber of parliament:
- he had to scale wall, with help from protestors, to get in
- he'd been asleep when wife woke him to tell him news: he couldn't believe it
1/2

https://t.co/QCy4P1F9IY

[Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks]

More than ten years ago, I interviewed Fethullah Gülen. It was one of those interviews was a very big deal at the time.........but where the top line remained elusive. Maybe that was the point.
https://t.co/Mv6NjIiMJa

[Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks]

Auden, paraphrasing Valéry: "A poem is never finished, only abandoned."

[Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine]

This is what happens when you don’t fund the humanities

[Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks]

Whether you think @POTUS should stay in the race or drop out -- this is a magnificent pay-off from the Lexington column in @TheEconomist

[Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks]

@hkillcoyne @raziaiqbal Thank you very much @hkillcoyne -- delighted to have you listening to the show

[Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks]

Move to London in June

[Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks]

Trying to work out what this ad algorithm says about my internet browsing history. @nytimes #cowfull

[Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks]

@Ostrov_A @bbcworldservice Good evening, Arsen. We were very grateful that you offered to do the interview, but we stood you down when we managed to get a former Israeli Prime Minister on to explain why he thought the ICC prosecutor's application was wrong.

[Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks]

Don't ask. Just listen to Newshour -- about 2140bst.

https://t.co/5WliWx2VNZ

[Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks]

@jamesandtrains Dear @jamesandtrains -- thank you for your kind enquiry. I'm doing the late edition today and tomorrow as it happens........but you're right, I am doing more of a mix these days. An end to the endless late nights! Thanks for listening.