Nick Ericsson

Writer. Journalist. Analyst. Communications.
Editorial Director - @WaterAidPress + @bbcafrica + @bbcworldservice 📻 📺 📱

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My brilliant former-BBC colleague @KathyHarcombe and I have launched TopCast, our digital video, podcast and production training company. Between us, we have over four decades of editorial and production experience and we want to share that! https://t.co/SMX1PZIEhd

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For me, Graceland is a masterpiece - certainly the greatest album of the 1980s. So this is a difficult and challenging listen. Necessarily so.

[Lynsey Chutel @lynseychutel]

Four decades later Paul Simon’s Graceland is still the first encounter most international audiences had with South African music. But can you divorce the sound from the politics of the time?
My first radio outing on BBC Radio 4 is live
https://t.co/44mwFd2X7M

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The latest, brilliant Africa Eye https://t.co/lf5S3Fjthq

[RISE Mzansi @Rise_Mzansi]

[LISTEN] So, what now? Rise Mzansi leader Songezo Zibi reflects on future of GNU

https://t.co/RXfkNO5idm

[Mark Lowen @marklowen]

📣 Some news about me:
Yesterday (Wednesday) I was detained by police in Istanbul, held for 17 hours and then deported from Turkey to the UK. Told I was “a threat to public order”. In the country I lived in - and love.
Journalism is not a crime.
Here’s the BBC’s statement:

[Rozina Breen @RozieBreen]

Democracy dies in darkness.

Grim days.

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BBC's Mark Lowen deported from Turkey after covering protests https://t.co/JwvmfJfOE3

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Athol Fugard caught the impact of apartheid’s full-on attack on humanity https://t.co/eYqyobAcTT

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@andrewsduncan1 Yes I was lucky enough to meet him backstage at the Civic Theatre in Joburg in the mid-90s. We had just watched The Captain’s Tiger (which he wrote and starred in). He was so generous with his time and so kind and had the most impressive ostrich-feather pen which he showed us

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RIP the great Athol Fugard

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@DadaMorero gosh, so many meetings

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Ah this is glorious

[Mark Steel @mrmarksteel]

I’m on Desert Island Discs in a minute. Oh my giddy aunt.

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Mishal Husain to join Bloomberg after leaving BBC Radio 4 Today - BBC News. She really is the best of the best https://t.co/2HmTgZSrZU

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https://t.co/92cLD9HXfR's Breyten Breytenbach, writer and anti-apartheid activist https://t.co/aK38QmmxZ1

[Zenaida Machado @zenaidamz]

ALERT: Two South African journalists, Bongani Siziba and Sbonelo Mkhasibe, working @NewsCentralTV are missing in Mozambique. They were apparently detained while covering the protests in Maputo, and have since been incommunicado.

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Another masterclass 👇👇 #thisculturallife https://t.co/G4Esxe6CYD

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👇 one of the best podcasts of the year

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#incredibleradio https://t.co/nJZgxC57tB

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https://t.co/LT1XrfMAJV #loadshedding #southafrica