Robin Markwell

Producer & Reporter for @BBCRadio4 and @bbcworldservice. Formerly @bbcpolitics, @bbcpointswest, @bbcpoliticswest and @bbcnews 📻 📺🎙 Trustee @DrJennersHouse

[Robin Markwell @robinmarkwell]

Out now - my documentary on excessive sand mining in the Mekong. Yup, another environmental crisis to worry about but the programme comes with solutions too! Big thanks to @VinceBeiser, @marcgoichot
Pascal Peduzzi from @UNEP, Julian Leyland & @_andy_ball
https://t.co/s6yuKHsy5V

[Robin Markwell @robinmarkwell]

Lettuce harvesters, mushroom suckers and a robot sheepdog. I explored the role of robots in agriculture in my latest #OnYourFarm for @BBCRadio4 with robo-enthusiast Prof Simon Pearson from @LIATLincoln of @unilincoln 🤖 https://t.co/0Hp9WDHmCC

[Robin Markwell @robinmarkwell]

A huge year for the @sagradafamilia in #Barcelona as it prepares to welcome the Pope, marks 100 years since Gaudí's death and it finally nears completion (one façade still to go!) This was a real eye-opener to make with fellow journo Lluis Amiguet https://t.co/6RHg2qu8LT

[Emma Harding @EmmaHarding01]

Drama in Schools: an unfolding tragedy? Actor Christopher Eccleston investigates the decline in #drama education in schools in England. 4pm Tues 10 Feb @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds Producer @robinmarkwell #education #schools https://t.co/7T8OcWiYE8

[BBC World Service @bbcworldservice]

Chuquicamata: Chile's abandoned mining town - by 2007, the town lay abandoned after its 25,000 residents left due to pollution concerns.

🎧 Hear the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there https://t.co/6YfYA4w40e

[Robin Markwell @robinmarkwell]

Delighted to present and produce this for @bbcradio4 - fascinating episode in British history - still on @BBCSounds if you were busy watching the Lionesses win the football when it aired!

[Save Redland Library @SaveRedlandLibr]

7:15pm TODAY on ⁦@BBCRadio4⁩

Don't Lose Your Head!
Illuminated

A vicar takes on a church and discovers the head of the 14th-century Archbishop of Canterbury Simon of Sudbury in the vestry. Is it time to reunite his head with his body? https://t.co/hF4VHggTHy

[Robin Markwell @robinmarkwell]

Thrilled to be back on From Our Own Correspondent on @BBCRadio4 this morning with a report from the ghost town of Chuquicamata in the Atacama desert in Chile. Have a listen at https://t.co/BVNJ2z7fWR 📻🌎🇨🇱

[BBC World Service @bbcworldservice]

How can Chile satisfy an electrifying world’s hunger for copper and at what cost?

🎧 A window into our world, through in-depth storytelling https://t.co/NMXDDz5V8i

[Robin Markwell @robinmarkwell]

Big thanks to @thetimes for recommending my latest documentary, this time about copper and Chile. Aired today on the @bbcworldservice Catch it now on @BBCSounds 📻 🇨🇱

[Robin Markwell @robinmarkwell]

@RosieDuffield1 Great to hear - thank you 🍞

[Robin Markwell @robinmarkwell]

Thanks for being part of the programme @RosieDuffield1 - albeit inadvertently!

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

Accidentally hearing myself pop up on @BBCRadio4's @BBCFoodProg talking about fake sourdough products (or 'sourfaux') on supermarket shelves during an @CommonsEFRA session may be the single most middle-class thing that's ever happened to me!

[Robin Markwell @robinmarkwell]

Fab day with the @foodmuseumuk in Suffolk talking the history of school dinners for an @BBCRadio4 Food Programme going out today. Turkey twizzlers, gloopy gravy and lumpy custard abound! https://t.co/vwPs9rgyI8

[Robin Markwell @robinmarkwell]

Comments made on this week's Any Questions in Epperstone making the news...BBC News - Labour minister sorry over grooming gangs 'dog whistle' remark - BBC News
https://t.co/EMrtH6Y08W

[Robin Markwell @robinmarkwell]

@montie @HuddlestonNigel Great to have you on @montie. Glad you enjoyed a cheeky burger on the way back

[Robin Markwell @robinmarkwell]

Just back from Chile for a @bbcworldservice documentary called The Copper Kingdom. Chile produces a quarter of the world's copper but at what cost to the environment? I've been investigating at the world's largest open pit mine in the Atacama desert. Airing in June 📻 🌎 🇨🇱

[Robin Markwell @robinmarkwell]

This was a delightful afternoon in the Somerset countryside with the @thatchers_cider team for @bbcradio4 featuring most kinds of weather! Big thanks to producer Jo Peacey and @honestimbritney https://t.co/qbgEXw0nRX

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

Speaking to Radio 4 at FGR this afternoon, about food for a change...;)

[Robin Markwell @robinmarkwell]

Very grateful to the Smithfield traders for being so welcoming and allowing me to see some butchery up close. A fascinating topic and so much history - this was a real pleasure to make. You can catch it again here...
https://t.co/X3TNfw285t

[The Food Programme @BBCFoodProg]

A 3am wake-up call to join the meat traders of Smithfield Market for this week's prog. The @cityoflondon is closing both Smithfield and the Billingsgate fish market so what will it mean for our food security? Feat. @Aliciajweston @drmatthewgreen @carolynsteel @ProfTimLang🥩🐟📻

[Robin Markwell @robinmarkwell]

Today's two offices couldn't be much more different. For two separate programmes on @BBCRadio4 but both with some form of butchery at their heart!

[Robin Markwell @robinmarkwell]

On today's @BBCFoodProg on @BBCRadio4 with @jaegawise - as Dry January comes to a close, how the alcohol free drinks movement is booming and when did AF beer become tasty? with particular thanks to @joinclubsoda @KAMInsight @LuckySaintBeer @WiperAndTrue @BrisBeerFactory 🍺

[Robin Markwell @robinmarkwell]

I made this for @BBCRadio4 this morn with @jaegawise and featuring @GordonBrown. How did Britain become a Food Bank Nation? With huge thanks to the @brisnwfoodbank & @CommunityShops Really grateful to all those who shared their stories 🙏📻 https://t.co/NyiRb8uP8o