Joshua Thorpe 🇫🇷 🇬🇧

Senior business journalist @bbcnews - French and British. Improviser @buffetimprov.

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@mralistairgreen This is 👌- we need to hear Derek doing the advert voice-ups you get in the middle of podcasts

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@anon_opin On the contrary, 6music has evolved for the better. The 2 hours of deranged jungle is great, as is pretty much anything Jamz Supernova plays on a Saturday!

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@PopCrave https://t.co/GVIlZhQQMj

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@Birdyword Tainted love

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@stephenkb @DPJHodges Ok fair enough,I get your point. I just wanted to give some behind the scenes perspective from Swindon South, because you mentioned it specifically. The rest of the coverage is above my pay grade tbh.

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@stephenkb @DPJHodges As I said at the start, I don't know about those. I was just giving my experience as a producer at Swindon South, it wasn't an editorial issue there, I am not making any broader point about BBC coverage

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@stephenkb @DPJHodges I was only responding to your point about Swindon South as I was the producer there

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@stephenkb @DPJHodges I didn't say that though? We were always planning to take the whole count live, a sound issue at the start prevented that

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@DPJHodges @stephenkb Yes and as I mentioned we had a live feed up, which cut out due to a sound issue, which happens, it's live broadcast, it wasn't an editorial decision to miss the start of the declaration

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@stephenkb @DPJHodges You said the BBC "didn't cover Swindon South". I refute that, we covered it extensively on TV and radio, and did 3 live interviews with Robert Buckland on different outlets. BTW we also covered Swindon North on both TV and radio

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@DPJHodges @stephenkb Well we did deal with it, the sound issue got resolved and we went live to the declaration and speeches as soon as we could.

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@stephenkb My point is it wasn't an editorial decision not to get the start of the count. There was an issue with the sound on the live feed at the start which meant we missed the first bit of the declaration, but we still covered it. No idea about the other 2 though

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@stephenkb We did, I was the producer there. There was a technical issue with our line dropping out right at the start of the declaration, but we got the first live interview with Robert Buckland straight after

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I got to vote in 2 elections on the same day. In person in the UK and by internet for the 2nd round of the French election. I will never ever take that for granted. Democracy is a wonderful thing!

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@SoVeryBritish You're being a bit generous with spring here!

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@SimonCalder It's got to be Tower Bridge, when the bascules open up!

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The shower mafia!

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Organised rain continuing to clear the east coast early this afternoon 🌧️

Elsewhere sunny spells and showers for many 🌦️

Feeling cool thanks to a keen northerly wind 🌬️ with temperatures a good few degrees below the June average 📉

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@spignal Some Andouillettes will do the job!

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@JamesWickham Almost London pub prices! 😅

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@SimonCalder Gibraltar, where you can just walk into town!