Joe McFadden

Journalist @BBCNews health team but mostly tweet about pop culture | Former officer @SPAJournalism | Got a story? DMs open/ [email protected]

[Joe McFadden @Joe_McFaddenBBC]

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Last week I wrote a BBC InDepth piece for the @BBCNews
website all about student mental health and who should be responsible for it

Give it a read 👇

BBC News - Should student mental health responsibility fall to universities? - BBC News
https://t.co/HQucloOYoE

[Joe McFadden @Joe_McFaddenBBC]

Latest story from me 👇

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Vaccine breakthrough stops cancer returning in trial https://t.co/HJ4p8rJ7fE

[Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall]

I wrote about how the late Vincent Pastore was so good, David Chase abandoned his original plan for Big Pussy to disappear forever at the end of The Sopranos' first season: https://t.co/BrcZeyksRn

[Hugh Pym @BBCHughPym]

Interesting appointment at Dept of Health and Social Care - Yvette Cooper to be Secretary of State. A lot in her in tray with social care reform and NHS waiting lists etc.
Has experience as health minister under last Labour government as well as Cabinet roles at Treasury and DWP

[Hugh Pym @BBCHughPym]

PPE failures left NHS staff poorly protected and wasted £10bn - latest covid inquiry report. https://t.co/LLRhEdfaqR

[Joe McFadden @Joe_McFaddenBBC]

NEW: Covid inquiry module 5 report finds billions wasted

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

PPE failures left NHS staff poorly protected and wasted billions, Covid inquiry finds https://t.co/N7WQHyEw14

[Hugh Pym @BBCHughPym]

Senior doctors in England who are members of the BMA have voted for industrial action over pay. 76 per cent of consultants voting were in favour on a 52 per cent turnout. Specialist (SAS) doctors were in favour but didn’t hit the 50 per cent turnout threshold.

[Joe McFadden @Joe_McFaddenBBC]

Best news I've seen all year. Music to my eyes.

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' to Skip Social Media Influencer Screenings https://t.co/PrA7rRnWrY

[Joe McFadden @Joe_McFaddenBBC]

Is this going to be like the bit in Game of Thrones where all the lords pledge fealty to Jon Snow and proclaim him the King of the North?

[David Maddox @DavidPBMaddox]

Labour MPs have all received an invite from the PLP to all join Andy Burnham for a photocall in parliament at 3pm on Monday. While described as “normal” for welcoming a by-election winner, one MP noted: “let the coronation begin.”
https://t.co/zBAZRhXk5P

[Joe McFadden @Joe_McFaddenBBC]

@NoahKeate I was thinking earlier it's always peaceful outside when England are playing because most people are either at the pub or on front of the telly!

[Joe McFadden @Joe_McFaddenBBC]

Spent three fantastic years on the committee of this great charity so I'd highly recommend joining its trustee board and supporting the next generation of journalists!

[Student Publication Association @SPAJournalism]

🔔 Join the SPA Trustee Board

🗞️ Do you have strong connections with the journalism industry? Then we want to hear from you!

📨 Apply now by sending your CV and cover letter to [email protected] - applications close at 11:59pm on 21st June.

🤞 Good luck!

[Joe McFadden @Joe_McFaddenBBC]

Really sad about this. My main introduction to him was as Uther Pendragon in Merlin - an unforgettable role among others. A great of the British small screen. R.I.P

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Buffy and Ted Lasso star Anthony Head dies at 72 https://t.co/M77DsVA6Fc

[Joe McFadden @Joe_McFaddenBBC]

EXC: Abolishing patient watchdog leaves NHS 'marking own homework', councils warn

Very exciting to get my first exclusive since becoming a professional journo!

But important message from the Local Government Association about the NHS Modernisation Bill

https://t.co/e3LxauVHt1

[Joe McFadden @Joe_McFaddenBBC]

But she was so much more than Star Wars. She edited several iconic films of the 70s, mainly for Scoresese. Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and New York, New York. She assisted on The Rain People and Medium Cool. And of course edited American Graffiti as well.

[Mr. Chau @Srirachachau]

Aw man. By all accounts completely saved that first Star Wars

[Joe McFadden @Joe_McFaddenBBC]

Another incomparable legend of an iconic era gone. Rest in peace. 💔

[Joe McFadden @Joe_McFaddenBBC]

But she was so much more than Star Wars. She edited several iconic films of the 70s, mainly for Scoresese. Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and New York, New York. She assisted on The Rain People and Medium Cool. And of course edited American Graffiti as well.

[Joe McFadden @Joe_McFaddenBBC]

I could drone on but several others will do better obits and rightfully talk about how she was the secret weapon behind Star Wars. All one has to do is look at the prequels (which I do love) and the sequels (let's not go there) to see how important her contributions were.

[Joe McFadden @Joe_McFaddenBBC]

a fun special effects showcase into a tense but exhilarating finale. It's one of the best set pieces in film history for a reason and her work will forever be etched into memories for generations to come; a reminder that we're all still ten years old at heart

[Joe McFadden @Joe_McFaddenBBC]

This has genuinely really upset me. Marica Lucas was the human equivalent of the Force behind Star Wars, guiding it from scribbles in George Lucas notebooks to the groundbreaking blockbuster audiences fell in love with 49 years ago Monday

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[Variety @Variety]

Marcia Lucas, Oscar-Winning 'Star Wars' Editor, Dies at 80 https://t.co/xCSAMODhGK

[Joe McFadden @Joe_McFaddenBBC]

Her influence on Star Wars - and American cinema - is unmatched. I'm half way through reading George Lucas's autobiography and I was just reading the chapter about her editing the famous Death Star trench run. It was her instincts as an editor which turned the sequence from