Apologies for this dear viewers - I was at the end of a long shift after a 5am start when the director cut to me by mistake. The perils of live TV!
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Ben Brown
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Ben Brown
@BenBrownBBC
BBC News Presenter and author of 'Sandstealers', a novel about war correspondents. Fanatical supporter of Liverpool football club.
Joined February 2013
- One hour and counting stuck in this BBC lift - I’ve been promised rescue teams are on the way but no sign of them yet
- BREAKING NEWS: I’m free!! Almost three hours of incarceration but thanks to all for your concern (and bad jokes)
- UN Secretary General tells me he’s shocked by Russia carrying out a missile attack on Kyiv while he’s on the city for talks with President Zelensky. Ukraine calls it a ‘heinous act of barbarism’ - and a ‘postcard from Moscow’
- Great to see George Alagiah back in our BBC newsroom today!!
- So sad to see her go…farewell to a broadcasting legend. Composed, articulate, empathetic and warm to the very end.[NEWS] Joanna Gosling bids farewell to BBC News viewers after 23 years at the corporation.
00:00 - Good news: a lift engineer is on the way. Bad news: he’s stuck in traffic and will be another hour
- Strange day - anchored live coverage of the announcement of new Prime Minister - and am currently stuck in a BBC lift trying to get home. Help!
- I did a challenging interview with @campbellclaret as I do with all my guests, whether they are Labour, Tory, LibDem, SNP or anything else. Please don’t presume to know my politics - and please understand that tough, devil’s advocate interviews are what a free press is all aboutReplying to @BenBrownBBCYou were schooled by @campbellclaret . It was so obvious, you were following the toryfied line of impartial questioning. You really looked silly there. Your broadcasting standards have slipped. So many decent presenters like Emily Maitlis have left and exposed the BBC.
- Sorry Greg, didn’t mean to slag off Radio One, but three hours of forced listening to any radio station is hard to take! Obviously if it had been your show, my incarceration would have been more pleasurable 😊
00:00 - My interview tonight in Kyiv with the UN Secretary General on his talks with President Zelensky - and his efforts to stop the fighting in #Ukraine
00:00 - What an enormous loss to the BBC. Joanna has consistently been one of our most brilliant presenters - a privilege and pleasure to have worked alongside herYou may have already heard, but I wanted to confirm, that I have decided to leave the BBC and will go off air on the 26th January. I am very grateful for the kind messages I’ve had from so many of you. I’m proud of my career in news. Now it is time for new beginnings.
- RIP Bill - like me he began his career at Radio Clyde (where they said we were Clyde-built, like ships). Terrific broadcaster, and a lovely, caring man adored by viewers and colleagues alike.Very sad day for the millions who knew Bill from TV and for colleagues at the BBC. Well done Bill for setting an example for all of us living with life-threatening illness. RIP Bill Turnbull: Former BBC Breakfast presenter dies aged 66 bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…
