Sharing another pre-publication view on ‘Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence.’ It’s from Sathnam Sanghera, whose own work through ‘Empireland’ and now ‘Empireworld’ has been so agenda-setting.
My book is out on June 6th and can be ordered now in hardback, ebook and

This is coming up June 12th, six days after ‘Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence’ is out 🔽

His full response is here to watch ▶️ youtu.be/wUjhqhD2T9o?si…

Wole Soyinka ⁦Truth Tellers⁩ - calls for African and European countries to work properly, together, on drivers of migration and says the seeds go back to colonialism and under development. Also says Rwanda should never have agreed to receive asylum seekers from the U.K.

Also: Don McCullin, MoTaz Arwa Damon Youmna ElSayed Gillian Tett Gabriel Pogrund Emma Tucker & many more. Details of the live stream via Truth Tellers

The remarkable way Tina Brown celebrates her late husband: join the livestream for tomorrow’s ⁦Truth Tellers⁩ with speakers including ⁦emily m⁩ ⁦William Dalrymple⁩ ⁦Krishnan Guru-Murthy⁩ ⁦Christiane Amanpour⁩, & Wole Soyinka, on stage with me 🔽 sirharrysummit.org/agenda/

One of Europe’s most notorious people-smugglers has been arrested in Iraq following a BBC Radio 4 investigation.

Sue Mitchell and @roblawrieofficial went in search of Barzan Majeed across Europe.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Obviously .. I am thrilled to have this from the fabulous Joanna Lumley. ‘Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence’ is out in 3 weeks ▶️ harpercollins.co.uk/products/broke…

The Chief Inspector of Prisons has issued an 'urgent notification' about conditions in HMP Wandsworth, which saw an alleged escape last year.

Charlie Taylor tells #R4Today about his visit, with many prisoners in 'despair', inexperienced staff and poor security measures.

‘Broken Threads’ is out on June 6th and I deeply appreciate the comments from those who read early copies. To get your own on publication day, see here: harpercollins.co.uk/products/broke…

Sharone Lifschitz, whose 83-year-old father Oded has been held hostage since October 7th, tells #R4Today there's a 'glimmer of hope' for a ceasefire in Gaza after Hamas said it would accept a deal drawn up by mediators, but 'there's extremists on both sides that can derail it'.

If you haven’t seen the original, it is still on the iPlayer. And really looking forward to this 🔽

This has all gone very meta: Radio 4 on Radio 1 on Radio 4. 🤯

BBC Radio 1 BBC Radio 4 Greg James Caroline Nicholls

Female author AND two women (my grandmothers) on the cover. This is the bound proof (thank you 4th Estate Books) and yes I am banking on both men and women picking it up..

#WorldServicePresents
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Free Nazanin Stella Assange #FreeAssangeNOW

Thank you⁩ ⁦BBC Radio 4 Today⁩ ⁦Mishal Husain⁩ for breaking the news #MuseumoftheYear 2024 ⁦Art Fund⁩ bbc.com/news/articles/…

As discussed this morning 🔽

I’ll be part of this later, talking to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Stella Assange. Livestream details 🔽
bbc.co.uk/academy/events…

A colleague has got in touch to point me to another chapter of the 20th century past - Jewish refugees from the Nazis fleeing to Central Asia, and the music they made there. Michael Rossi made this for BBC Radio 3 about the ‘lost songs’ 🔽
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

There is so much more I could have said .. Uzbekistan is where Ulugh Beg’s observatory was mapping stars in the 15th century, and the native region of the man from whom we get the word ‘algorithm’. But mainly this is about travels with my mother!