James Shield

Executive producer of The Global Story at @BBCNews • produced The Wargame for @tortoise & @skynews • previously @thetimes • 3x gold @WeAreAudioUK awards

[James Shield @jshield]

The BBC’s new world news podcast is up and running. Every weekday, one big story, with BBC correspondents around the world. Built by a transatlantic production team with huge experience at the BBC and at NPR, NYT, The Times, Tortoise, The Guardian, Wondery, Pineapple, you name it

[BBC World Service @bbcworldservice]

Riviera or statehood: the future of Gaza - two opposing visions for a post-war Gaza with BBC International Editor @BowenBBC

🎧 Global perspectives on one big story https://t.co/RbK0ANs8h1

[Lucy Easthope @LucyGoBag]

I am told that members of the Cabinet have listened to the Wargame podcast, which opens with several vicious attacks on unarmed personnel near their bases… And yet…. 🤷‍♀️

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@haynesdeborah GUGI!

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A few photos from the day of the recording back in April. 46 people in the cast and crew, 27 mics, over 235,000 words on tape, and only one chance to get it right.

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Five stars for The Wargame in The Times

“Frightening and brilliant”

https://t.co/DaresQ9C05

[Deborah Haynes @haynesdeborah]

Given the understandable focus this weekend on the UK’s lack of air defences, I’m reposting a link to The Wargame podcast

Last April, we simulated a Russian ballistic and cruise missile attack on the UK and how a fictional government COBR might respond

https://t.co/7Zvq7Z8jnB

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We ran a special essay from Jeremy Bowen on The Global Story over the weekend. On how each Gulf war planted the seeds of the next:
https://t.co/Wd5duVPmO2

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Our episode on the Iran school strike. Was it a war crime?

With BBC Verify's @MerlynThomas and Yale international law professor @oonahathaway https://t.co/kvcyvQKzCS

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@AlexanderDinger @corajamine @cturzer @welt 👀

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I suppose we should be flattered that Die Welt has ripped off The Wargame quite so comprehensively

[WELT @welt]

Ernstfall – Was, wenn Russland uns angreift? Ein Wargame https://t.co/n9B0ueK16P

[James Shield @jshield]

🔴 As early as the first Trump administration, US officials were gaming out a post-Maduro Venezuela

The BBC spoke to one man who was in the room for the war games

@asmamk's full interview on The Global Story podcast:
https://t.co/n8ieWsx8ya

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The US ran a war game on the aftermath of Maduro’s fall. It predicted chaos

@BBCNews spoke to someone who was in the room for several war games with US government officials, who says every scenario ended in disaster

@asmamk’s full interview:

https://t.co/pUKsT079cU

[Julian Vaughan @julian_vaughan_]

Just catching up with this podcast, war gaming a Russian attack on the UK. The most gripping and chilling thing I've heard for a long time. Excellent input from many, including @LucyGoBag

Essential listening.

False Flag | The Wargame Ep 1 https://t.co/WEaimaTI1r via @YouTube

[James Shield @jshield]

Thank you to @SamuelAgini for choosing The Wargame – a podcast – as his ‘favourite non-FT article of the year’ on the grounds that he can’t read 😂

https://t.co/P5L5WGv0Cb

[James Shield @jshield]

I started reading the Economist when I was 19, on my lunch breaks at the ethernet cable factory in Glenrothes. I liked that it didn’t talk down to its readers too much. Anyway, it’s exciting that The Wargame is in their picks of the year. I hope someone in Glenrothes enjoys it.

[Press Gazette @pressgazette]

@StarlingBank @amazon @FindoutnowUK @JournoCharity @paydesk @Orsted @Source_Mat @LeighBa1 @AtikaRehman @StaufenbergJ @marcusleroux @costanzaradice @lukewbarratt @rosafurneaux @luciemheath @theipaper @ShaunLintern @thetimes @hopenothate @davidtpegg @tomburgis @JulietteGarside @harryshukman @patrik_h @EdConwaySky @SkyNews @C4Dispatches @DailyMirror @JCalvertST @Arbuthnott @GWJournalism @KatieTarrant_ @JackoJourno @geraldine_mck @MattBardo @NickSommerlad @HardcashProd @Channel4 @richardhcookson @AnnaHallTV @NicolaAddyman Highly commended for Innovation of the Year are @SkyNews / @tortoise for The Wargame. @haynesdeborah @jshield @JBSwinburne96 Tom Kinsella @Katy_Scholes Jasper Corbett @paulstanworth @swhiteheadsky @DavidMapstone #BJA2025

[James Shield @jshield]

@HanifAhmadzai5 Hi Hanif, I work at BBC News. I wondered if you could follow me so I can DM you?

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The decision facing Zelensky

https://t.co/g9bTKRGs15

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Four programmes I edited for the @bbcworldservice this week

https://t.co/TjSb9hdUz7

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Jobs like this don’t come up very often. The BBC is hiring a senior producer to work on the legendary Profile – in my opinion one of the best programmes on Radio 4 – and AntiSocial. Deadline 17th November:

https://t.co/FloCioRkID

[Asma Khalid @asmamk]

One of the reasons I really wanted to do this story on the pod —

Polling shows a majority of Americans (80+%) seem to adore Canada.

Only about 1/3 of Canadians have a favorable view of the United States.

So what’s the long/term consequences of this trade tension?