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Sarah Montague

@Sarah_Montague

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Presenter of the World At One on BBC Radio 4, and HARDtalk.

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Joined February 2011
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
3 years
Watching @CliveMyrieBBC makes me feel very proud that I work at the BBC. He is a class act.
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Sarah Montague
6 years
There is a news programme on @BBCRadio4 that has not lost listeners over the quarter @BBCWorldatOne Just saying... #rajar
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Sarah Montague
7 years
. @BBCCarrie Gracie is brave and brilliant. Not sure what is so hard to understand about #equalpay for equal work. #IstandwithCarrie
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7 years
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Sarah Montague
4 years
Wasn’t expecting the video to appear but what the hell. Feels like an important moment #bbcwato
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BBC Radio 4
4 years
@BBCSounds "Yes, yes, yes" said the Professor. World at One presenter @Sarah_Montague reacts to the positive early results of one of the big coronavirus vaccine trials.
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Sarah Montague
7 years
Thumbs up from @BBCr4today guest editor. Not the usual sight through the glass. #r4today
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Sarah Montague
7 years
In other news.... after 18 years on @BBCr4today my last shift will be on Friday. Sad to go but v excited to be moving to @BBCWorldatOne
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Sarah Montague
5 years
Like millions of others, working from home today. My kitchen table is now ⁦ @BBCWorldatOne ⁩ studio. #bbcworld
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Sarah Montague
3 years
Coming up on ⁦ @BBCWorldatOne ⁩ we head to Yr Wyddfa with @tudur
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Sarah Montague
5 years
Last year after a long period of stressful negotiations, I accepted a settlement of £400,000 subject to tax and an apology from the BBC for paying me unequally for so many years. 3/3
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
5 years
I would prefer not to be talking about my pay but feel I have no option given the erroneous reports in today’s papers. Here are the facts… 1/3
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
7 years
My @BBCr4today studio at RAF Marham. In case it isn’t obvious. #r4today
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
6 years
The ever brilliant @bbclysedoucet
@SussexUni
University of Sussex
6 years
"Without kindness, where would we be?" The BBC’s chief international correspondent and honorary graduate of the University of Sussex, @bbclysedoucet OBE, explains why kindness is so important to journalism. #sussexgrad
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
7 years
When your own programme's tweets bring you up short...
@BBCr4today
BBC Radio 4 Today
7 years
Good morning. Your presenters today are John Humphrys and for the final time @Sarah_Montague . Farewell 😞 #r4today
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7 years
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Sarah Montague
8 years
Just introduced John to Snapchat...
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
7 years
Our 60th birthday audience at the Wigmore Hall. Lovely to look out on them! Happy Birthday @BBCr4today
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
7 years
In the parliamentary broom cupboard where Emily Wilding Davison hid overnight to get on the census! @BBCr4today
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
7 years
@JeremyClarkson Hi Jeremy! After our chat thought you might like to see this... x
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Sarah Montague
8 years
Look what holiday does to u. Beardy weirdy @bbcnickrobinson . I'm off now -hope it doesn't happen to me. @BBCr4today
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Sarah Montague
7 years
Important correction to @thesundaytimes front page story.
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Mishal Husain
7 years
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9 years
Talking Hedgehogs today 7.40. Made me remember this, courtesy of @JakeWSimons STILL one of best things on internet. http://t.co/o8Tdxb4XHb
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Sarah Montague
5 years
When I discovered the disparity in my pay and conditions, I was advised that rectifying it all could run into the millions. I chose not to seek such sums from the BBC but I did want some recognition that they had underpaid me. 2/3
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Sarah Montague
6 years
I used to love presenting @BBCr4today with the brilliant @EvanHD so am thrilled he is moving to the neighbouring desks for @BBCPM @bbcworldatone #bbcwato
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Sarah Montague
7 years
@Telegraph
The Telegraph
7 years
Female BBC stars' letter demanding equal pay to Tony Hall in full
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
7 years
I have one going spare (yippeee!)
@Marthakearney
Martha Kearney
7 years
Can anyone lend me one of these? @BBCr4today
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Sarah Montague
9 years
When she sees our photo Grace Jones insists we retake it to make ME look better. A lesson in style. Why I'm on radio! http://t.co/OvBsHnS31Q
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Sarah Montague
4 years
No such thing as “individual” in news programmes! Here’s today’s (socially distanced) Wato/PM team #bbcwato @vlvuk
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@BBCNewsPR
BBC News Press Team
4 years
@Sarah_Montague has won the award for Best Individual Contributor to Radio. You can listen to Sarah today on the World at One on @BBCRadio4 📻
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
10 years
In the studio with John Humphrys to support jailed Al Jazeera journalists #journalismisnotacrime http://t.co/mduArlVzDK
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Sarah Montague
4 years
Thoroughly enjoyed sharing my commute with cycling avenger @theJeremyVine even though he insisted we went through the killing zone that is Hi St Ken #bbcwato
@BBCWorldatOne
The World at One
4 years
Who rules the road: Cyclists or Motorists? As commuters avoid public transport and take to bicycles to get to work, @theJeremyVine took #BBCWATO @Sarah_Montague out for a ride… #Covid_19
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Sarah Montague
6 years
I’ve rarely been so affected by an interview. Must have been so hard for her but she knew how important it was to say what happened.
@BBCHARDtalk
BBC HARDtalk
6 years
Yazidi activist @NadiaMuradBasee has been jointly awarded the #NobelPrize for her incredible courage. She spoke to @Sarah_Montague in 2016 about her ordeal at the hands of Islamic State
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Sarah Montague
6 years
Not my usual garb for @BBCWorldatOne but it’s freezing and I cycled. #canyouseeme ? #bbcwato
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Sarah Montague
4 years
Probably easier to work with than some co-presenters I’ve had over the years!
@briandsteel
Brian D Steel
4 years
@Sarah_Montague Been looking at your regular photo (left) on BBC Sounds "WATO" broadcast, and realised the chair next to you looked a bit like a penguin. So for fun, I did a little photoshopping (right)! :-)
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Sarah Montague
7 years
#BBCwomen statement in response to BBC announcements today
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
7 years
This sums it up perfectly!
@kathryntylerDM
Kathryn Tyler
7 years
@Sarah_Montague 4am on her first day at @BBCWorldatOne
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Sarah Montague
4 years
I think I’m going to make his answer my ring tone #yesyesyes #bbcwato
@Kate_M_Proctor
Kate Proctor
4 years
God this was really spine tingling radio. Life back to normal by spring. From someone who might actually know what they're talking about - Professor John Bell. #vaccine #WATO
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4 years
This is David Noton’s photograph for ⁦ @BBCWorldatOne ⁩. Talking about it now on #bbcwato
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@BBCr4today
BBC Radio 4 Today
7 years
"Jesus, Mary and Joseph." Not sure if praying will help @Sarah_Montague in this one 🛫🛫 #RAF100 #r4today
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Sarah Montague
5 years
Worth reading this thread....
@iandonald_psych
Professor Ian Donald
5 years
1. The govt strategy on #Coronavirus is more refined than those used in other countries and potentially very effective. But it is also riskier and based on a number of assumptions. They need to be correct, and the measures they introduce need to work when they are supposed to.
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Sarah Montague
7 years
I LOVE this!! 8 year old Darcey talking a lot of sense #EqualPayDay
@KirstenCanTalk
Kirsten Webster
7 years
If anyone is still in doubt why this is such an important issue. Just listen to 8 year old, Darcey. #EqualPayDay #bbcwomen #HibernateTheLadies @fawcettsociety
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7 years
Statement from #BBCWomen
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Sarah Montague
7 years
You MUST watch this. SO clever. @dazzpauls put 360 camera on Tornado flight. Turn phone to turn camera via @YouTube
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Sarah Montague
7 years
Thank you to all those who sent me lovely messages when I couldn’t confirm that I was going. I may not have replied but I appreciated it.
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Sarah Montague
7 years
Does anyone know what kind of owl this is? We found it in our wood-burner. Suspect it’s normally a paler colour.
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Sarah Montague
5 years
Pickle muscling in on ⁦ @BBCWorldatOne #bbcwato . Who let the dogs in?
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
3 years
We’re running reports on #Biodiversity all through July on #bbcwato . This is who we heard from today - volunteers at @Seawilding casting oysters into Loch Craignish
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Sarah Montague
3 years
This is the way to end #bbcwato @AliceLascelles ⁩ mixing me a Bloody Mary. 100 years old today. The cocktail not me
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Sarah Montague
7 years
Suspect u r trying to make up for poisoning me with your experiments. But whoever said flattery doesn’t work has never been flattered 😊
@AdamRutherford
Dr Adam Rutherford
7 years
I shall miss @Sarah_Montague on @BBCr4today . She is a joy, and her penetrating intellect is matched by her grace.
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5 years
Equal - wonderful to celebrate ⁦ @BBCCarrie ⁩ book launch with ⁦ @raziaiqbal #bbcwomen
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Sarah Montague
6 years
He couldn't cope without me! John Humphrys is leaving @BBCr4today . I spoke to him when he came off air this morning. You can hear the full interview on @BBCWorldatOne #BBCWato #ThereislifeafterToday
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Sarah Montague
8 years
Look at my @bbcr4today studio! Rooftop bar in Ho Chi Minh city. Very cool and VERY hot. #WorldonTheMove
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Sarah Montague
1 year
Just heard we have the BBC DG Tim Davie live in #BBCWATO . Do listen in at one!
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Sarah Montague
7 years
There’s quite a lot more praying coming up
@bbcnickrobinson
Nick Robinson
7 years
"Jesus, Mary & Joseph"* - @Sarah_Montague 's words on the last programme we'll present together. Boy, she will be missed! Looking forward to hearing her on @BBCWorldatOne & welcoming the excellent @Marthakearney to @BBCr4today (*Her reaction to flying fast & low in an RAF Tornado)
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Sarah Montague
8 years
Waiting for my @BBCHARDtalk guest. As outside studios go this one on Lake Como is not too shabby
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
8 years
Who is Sarah Monatgue??!
@BBCr4today
BBC Radio 4 Today
8 years
Good morning. Today's presenters are @JustinOnWeb and @Sarah_Monatgue . Join the conversation using #r4today .
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
7 years
One of the more bizarre interviews I’ve ever done on @BBCr4today #todayat60
@BBCr4today
BBC Radio 4 Today
7 years
Would John Humphrys ever become a politician? #r4today #Todayat60
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
10 years
Foreign Sec Philip Hammond on @BBCr4today now: western opinion "rapidly turning against Israel because of the scale of the action in Gaza"
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Sarah Montague
8 years
Such an uplifting story: Lyse Doucet's unexpected reunion with Syrian refugee family in Canada
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Sarah Montague
7 years
My Shropshire farmyard @BBCr4today programme studio this morning. Will be competing with the moos!
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
6 years
Absolutely fascinating read. Will be covering on @BBCWorldatOne #bbcwato @bellingcat worked on the Salisbury poisonings & now working on @JKhashoggi disappearance in Turkey #osint
@trbrtc
Christiaan Triebert
7 years
A list of tools @Bellingcat uses for verification and open source investigation. Updated regularly (see thread too).
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
2 years
Brilliant editing by my colleague @bethwoodbridge illustrates the genius of Jeff Beck as explained by Steve Hackett @HackettOfficial of Genesis #bbcwato
@BBCWorldatOne
The World at One
2 years
Listen again: "You can't overestimate the importance of Jeff Beck for guitarists" Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett ( @HackettOfficial ) remembers Jeff Beck, who has died aged 78.
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
7 years
The experience of a lifetime.
@AndrRoy
andrew roy
7 years
Must Watch @Sarah_Montague of @r4Today 360 video in an RAF Tornado questions the pilot whilst low-flying zigzagging through Welsh valleys at 250 feet. From 07.00
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
4 years
YAY!!
@nicholaswatt
Nicholas Watt
4 years
Wow. Professor John Bell tells @Sarah_Montague “with some confidence” life will return to normal by the spring #wato
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
3 years
Well that was lively! #BBCWATO broke the news that the PM and Chancellor have been fined over partygate. Thanks @BBCVickiYoung & sorry to @ProfDavidNutt for cutting you short
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Sarah Montague
8 years
An impressive 22 year old - William Broadway with his invention Isobar, winner of uk @JDF award on @BBCr4today .
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Sarah Montague
8 years
How's this for a cake?!! My clever sister-in-law baked this for @tommyb100 Happy 18th Tom!
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Sarah Montague
10 years
My @BBCr4today studio: the Tyneside bar cafe. Thanks to the passer-by who mooned me this morning! http://t.co/Td2QclW9oV
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3 years
Bloody Mary recipe. Torn from ⁦ @AliceLascelles ⁩ notes! #bbcwato Bloody good too
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Sarah Montague
8 years
Never known a @BBCr4today programme like that. Extraordinary morning. In all excitement in studio someone took my jacket - please return!
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Sarah Montague
8 years
Here's the photo @bbclbicker mentioned @bbcr4today A single photo that captures the conflict over race and policing
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
9 years
@HassenIqbal : Dr. @TahirulQadri recorded interview for @BBCRadio4 . http://t.co/vfr7HLebvk” Hear the interview tomorrow on @BBCr4today
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
7 years
Yeah the really important things! X
@MishalHusain
Mishal Husain
7 years
@Jon_Harvey1 @omrgriffiths @Sarah_Montague @BBCr4today @djoeclarke Have learned everything from her. Eg never enter studio before 0558. And there must always be time for tea before the 0415 pre rec
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
4 years
I've been wafting myself all morning
@GaryJHorrocks
Gary Horrocks
4 years
Tickled me pink to hear @Sarah_Montague chatting to @andrwscttonline and seriously introducing him as the ‘hot priest on #Fleabag .’ Splendid radio moment 👏 *wafts oneself with lavender mouchoir* #WATO @BBCWorldatOne @AScottSource
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
2 years
New gimmick we're trying on #bbcwato . A daily glimpse behind the scenes just before we go on air!
@BBCWorldatOne
The World at One
2 years
Coming up on #BBCWATO – + We unpack the first PMQs with the latest on Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs + Germany will send Leopard II tanks to Ukraine – what difference will they make? + Singer Tony Christie talks to us about his journey with dementia
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
7 years
@OborneTweets @the The pay is irrelevant. She doesn’t want more pay - just to be paid the same as men doing same work. Could be at much lower rate #bbcwomen
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
8 years
About to brave the traffic in Ho Chi Minh city for @BBCr4today #WorldOnTheMove
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
4 years
#yesyesyes Prof Sir John Bell’s answer when I asked on @bbcwato if the vaccine meant things would be normal by spring. Although he probably wasn’t thinking of this reference. #bbcwato
@lewis_louisa
Louisa Lewis
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Sarah Montague
2 years
I’m not laughing now. That egg is baked on. #BBCWATO .
@BBCWorldatOne
The World at One
2 years
"It's dribbling yellow and transparent egg white down the bonnet... we knew this wasn't gonna work" Watch @EvanHD attempt to fry an egg in record-breaking heat on @Sarah_Montague 's car #BBCWATO
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
8 years
Aww thank you. Not sure how you found balloons at 3am.
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
3 months
Always love these but todays is particularly fine…
@bbcpaddy
Paddy O'Connell
3 months
@BBCRadio4 ⁩ 0900 preview interrupted by sunlight shock
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
6 years
A privilege to meet them both. On way back from Oslo now. Hear this on @BBCHardtalk tomorrow
@BBCHARDtalk
BBC HARDtalk
6 years
Hardtalk’s ⁦ @Sarah_Montague ⁩ talks to Nobel Peace Prize winners ⁦ @NadiaMuradBasee ⁩ and ⁦ @DenisMukwege ⁩, both campaigning to stop sexual violence being used as a weapon in war
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
3 years
Thanks @lewis_goodall Here’s the link. You can hear Lexie just after quarter past.
@lewis_goodall
Lewis Goodall
3 years
Go back listen to World at One with @Sarah_Montague and Lexy, a woman on UCredit being pushed to the edge by cost of living. Said her kids are having to take only 1 shower a week and change into pyjamas when they get home, lest they tear their clothes and can’t afford to replace.
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
6 years
Please listen. And to this interview with Nicole. Important insight into what is going on. Thank you to all the very impressive students who spoke to us. #bbcwato @BBCWorldatOne
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WFCitizens
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Sarah Montague
9 years
It's a long time since I've been so affected by an interview. Watch Nadia Murad @BBChardtalk on News Channel at 8.30
@BBCHARDtalk
BBC HARDtalk
9 years
"A captured woman becomes a spoil of war if she is caught trying to escape" - former 'IS' prisoner Nadia Murad
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
7 years
Regards to you too Gaspard. Funny how pets & their owners end up looking similar. Striking image by the foxy @zebsoanes
@GaspardTheFox
Gaspard The Fox
7 years
Please send my regards to @Sarah_Montague ( @BBCr4today )
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
6 years
Hang on a minute!! Listen back to @BBCWorldatOne at 13.25 you’ll hear me trying to get to the facts of Labour’s position. #bbcwato
@EmilyThornberry
Emily Thornberry
6 years
It’s disappointing that Labour’s manuscript amendment tabling our proposed Brexit plan wasn’t selected by the Speaker this afternoon, but we did put it down, exactly as I said we had earlier on @bbcworldatone , so it was @Sarah_Montague who got her facts wrong, not me.
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
8 years
Hairnets - always a good look. Sam Kitney giving me a tour of Pusterla for @BBCr4today
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
7 years
@BBCSimonMcCoy @vicderbyshire @BBCr4today Mostly head in hands, silently weeping with frustration 😜
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
1 year
My view through the studio glass of the #BBCWato team in Westminster today!
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Sarah Montague
9 years
One of our more unusual interviewees -Getting ready for his interview. The Lorax
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Sarah Montague
3 years
Truly inspiring to hear how many #COVID patients now live because of treatments discovered by Recovery Trial. Thank you Prof @peterhorby and Dr Henry Bettinson ⁦ @OUHospitals ⁩ for my tour ⁦ @BBCWorldatOne #bbcwato @Mitch_Mansfield
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Sarah Montague
3 years
So many startling comments in today’s #bbcwato but this was extraordinary
@KateEMcCann
Kate McCann
3 years
Can’t quite believe what I just heard on @BBCWorldatOne . Former Met chief super Parm Sandhu saying female officers don’t always report suspicious behaviour of male colleagues because they “close ranks” & you risk being left to get your head kicked in on duty if you call for help
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
7 years
Bea Vo with "Election Cake" - looking forward to trying it in @BBCr4today studio
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
9 years
Boo hoo! 😭 “ @LauraWignall : And finally... @BBCr4today team after @naughtiej 's last presenting shift #r4today
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@Sarah_Montague
Sarah Montague
8 years
My @BBCr4today "studio" in Dover this morning. A bit chilly on the white cliffs!
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