Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks

Presenter of Newshour on BBC World Service radio. Previously, an award-winning BBC foreign correspondent. RTs not endorsements. bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00… London Joined February 2010

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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera

3 months ago

REVEALED: MI6 ran a molehunt in the 1990s after a CIA lead that the Russians had recruited an MI6 officer. Fears were of 'another Philby'. The hunt went on for years and was ultimately labelled 'inconclusive'. More details in the "The Spy in the Archive" - out in the UK next week

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Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks

7 months ago

Typical style and swish not so much from Peter Mandelson but the brilliant @GeorgeWParker @FTMag

George Parker @GeorgeWParker

7 months ago

Typical style and swish not so much from Peter Mandelson but the brilliant @GeorgeWParker @FTMag

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Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks

9 months ago

And bonus ingredient of me "crashing the post" like an absolute idiot......

Bella Gerber-Johnstone @bella_zooey

9 months ago

And bonus ingredient of me "crashing the post" like an absolute idiot......

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Rosemarie North @RosemarieNorth

9 months ago

Heartbreaking & hopeful reporting on Syria 🇸🇾 including interviews with former political prisoner @omarAlshogre & composer @MalekJandali, by @BBCTimFranks & the NewsHour team at @bbcworldservice. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w1…

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Emily Lewis @EmCLew

9 months ago

Much of Syrian composer @MalekJandali's music is inspired by the protest chants of the 2011 uprising. Today, he hopes the fall of Assad can create a "symphony of peace" A real privilege to produce this interview with @BBCTimFranks. Listen here from 39:30 shorturl.at/PyAMS

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Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks

9 months ago

I'm not sure I've ever hearted a tweet if that's what we still call it. Anyway, HEART @trafalgartree And I'm not -- as people who know me will testify -- a big xmas tree person

Trafalgar Square Tree @trafalgartree

9 months ago

I'm not sure I've ever hearted a tweet if that's what we still call it. Anyway, HEART @trafalgartree And I'm not -- as people who know me will testify -- a big xmas tree person

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Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks

11 months ago

More than ten years ago, I interviewed Fethullah Gülen. It was one of those interviews was a very big deal at the time.........but where the top line remained elusive. Maybe that was the point. bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

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Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks

12 months ago

Auden, paraphrasing Valéry: "A poem is never finished, only abandoned."

Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine

12 months ago

Auden, paraphrasing Valéry: "A poem is never finished, only abandoned."

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Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks

a year ago

Whether you think @POTUS should stay in the race or drop out -- this is a magnificent pay-off from the Lexington column in @TheEconomist

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Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks

a year ago

Move to London in June

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Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks

a year ago

Trying to work out what this ad algorithm says about my internet browsing history. @nytimes #cowfull

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Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks

a year ago

Don't ask. Just listen to Newshour -- about 2140bst. bbc.co.uk/northernirelan…

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BBC Sport Scotland @BBCSportScot

2 years ago

🗣️ "HE WENT FOR IT AND HE SCORED!" Check out this near 70-yard screamer from Stranraer's Finn Ecrepont 😲👏 📽️ Courtesy of @StranraerFC #BBCFootball

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Tim Franks @BBCTimFranks

2 years ago

Coming up on Newshour @bbcworldservice - we have an interview with @Borbornad - just barred from the #Russia presidential election. "We had 211,000 signatures". The war in Ukraine is a "fatal mistake". I am not afraid - I hope to be in politics for 20 years more. At 14gmt