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Former BBC R4 presenter, North America Editor, Europe Editor, Chief Political correspondent. Now Ronin, freelance writer and broadcaster.

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@MarkIMardell
Mark Mardell
4 years
My last #wato tomorrow & #TW2 on Sunday – I’m leaving the BBC after more than 30 years. V sad to leave hugely talented and lovely team. Excited to forge a new future.
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4 years
Incredibly flattered, thrilled and generally overwhelmed by all the appreciative messages. Thanks So, last world this weekend #tw2 (or Tdubz to really close friends) tomorrow as I leave the BBC. Immensely proud of the programme, sad to leave my friends a brilliant & lovely team.
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10 years
At Mandela's cell in Robben Island earlier this year Obama wrote "no shackles or cell can match the strength of the human spirit"
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1 year
Excited to be back on Broadcasting House @bbcpaddy with @ruskin147 talking about our new Parkinson's podcast "Movers & Shakers" @moversand6 -some time after 9 am on BBC R4
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@moversand6 are off to Downing Street @ruskin147 @JeremyPaxman @nickmostyn @gilliansolymar @paulmayhewarcher will be clutching our #parkycharter on Thursday -we've got 17K+ signatures, help us get at least 20K
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1 year
And I'm thrilled to be spending today, World Parkinson's Day, helping unveil the spanking new Parkinson Centre for Integrated Therapy in Canterbury. It's a hugely ambitious project aiming
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Rory Cellan-Jones
1 year
Today is #WorldParkinsonsDay and I will start banging on about it on @BBCLondonNews at 0750. Also a good day to subscribe to this fabulous podcast. Jeremy Paxman says it’s #%^*ing brilliant
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2 years
Its not just the fragility of Rishi’s appeal that has been laid bare but the shallow judgment of many tory MPs and some pol corrs. Time and Brexit has stripped out talent & depth and it shows.
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7 months
“For better, for worse” this week we bring our partners along and it is an extraordinary episode : there are tears and laughter and a degree of frankness that is quite humbling. and their reaction to adversity.
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8 years
Jewish Socialist Group "Accusations of antisemitism are currently being weaponised to attack the Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour party"
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6 years
I am genuinely staggered by the mess in Brussels - how can the Government NOT have squared the DUP ? How did they fail to predict DUP reax to "regulatory convergence' ? Someone please explain
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1 year
I am thrilled to be spending today, World Parkinson's Day, helping unveil the spanking new Parkinson Centre for Integrated Therapy in Canterbury It's clear from all the emails people have sent us that there is a real need for a one stop Parky shop.
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9 years
First & only clap of the night as Leanne Wood tells Farage he should be ashamed of himself for raising HIV 'health tourism' #leadersdebate
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7 years
Labour suspends campaigning until this evening. Corbyn says 'today we will all grieve"
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7 years
The time when America stopped being great - tremendous piece
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10 years
Obama talks to Putin for 90 mins - calls for withdrawal of Russian force back to bases - suspends preparation for G8 in Russia
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2 months
I have just pledged my support for the Parky Charter. Add your name and together we can urge the government to make sure people living with Parkinson's have better access to health and care services and financial support
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2 months
As many families get together for Easter please, please,pretty please, sign the petition and get friends, daughters,sons, aunts and uncles to sign -we AWARD WINNING podcasters will be handing it in to Downing Street on 11th April
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Mark Mardell
2 months
I have just pledged my support for the Parky Charter. Add your name and together we can urge the government to make sure people living with Parkinson's have better access to health and care services and financial support
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2 months
We won!!!
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Mark Mardell
11 years
CNN very post modern right now - fragmented versions of reality from multiple unreliable narrators
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9 years
Panic in marais area of Paris. Shut in cafe. Lights off - shutters down - in dark
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9 years
Former chairman of the fed Alan Greenspan predicts Greece will exit the Euro and eventually the single currency will collapse. #tw2
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1 year
and join our Facebook group
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1 year
We’re so grateful for the lovely reviews for the podcast. A sample: “At last Parkinson’s has a powerful voice!” “it makes me feel that we are less alone, so thank you.” “Keeping the subject of PD open and honest with laughter in the mix helps a great deal”
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3 years
I wasn't surprised when a (former) colleague told me mail was piling up for me. After all I left the BBC two months ago. I WAS surprised when I found an Xmas card from the PM ... Theresa May. The earliest was from 2016. Good to know BBC post dept has now found my ex desk.
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Mark Mardell
9 years
If Syriza win big enough to govern alone they will be robbed of one excuse for compromise (or backing down, depending on your view)
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Mark Mardell
12 years
#LynnDebate . Obama - "you say we have fewer ships than 1916 -also have fewer horses and bayonets." zing. @BBCNewsUS
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Mark Mardell
1 year
thrilled to be on this evening's Newscast with the BBC's latest dream team @sima_kotecha + @mariannaspring talking @moversand6 and Trump's Stormy trial. At least one of us will be wearing pink. #TrumpArraignment #Parkinsons
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1 year
The all singing all dancing centre is now launched !. Ever since I first heard about it I thought the Parkinson Centre for integrative therapy in Canterbury was a good idea. But visiting it in person convinced me it is a brilliant one
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3 years
Listen to my documentary on the impact of Brexit on exporters - tomorrow 8pm BBC Radio 4
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Mark Mardell
7 years
Exclusive on #tw2 #wato Tony Blair says Brexit bigger than party allegiance - he'll work with anyone to get the message across
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Mark Mardell
3 years
@amolrajan @BBCr4today Fresh air. Breath of. Relaxed, informal but pointed, like it should be. May stop an old buffer shouting at the radio for bit.
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Mark Mardell
11 years
Grandstanding and bitter partisan politics has taken the US Government over the edge and into shut down.
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Mark Mardell
6 years
#tw2 #bbcwato Ken Clarke tells us @AmberRuddHR is wrong on tactics - @theresa_may needs rescuing from a shambles after her cabinet wrecks a compromise on next week's votes
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Mark Mardell
9 years
#tw2 R4 @ 1 How the refugees crisis is unfolding in rural Germany - and what they think of Mrs Merkel
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9 years
Greek finance min @yanisvaroufakis tells #tw2 ECB considering cutting funds to banks is appalling - if they do Europe will have failed.
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4 years
@lewis_goodall Keep up the brilliant job you’re doing
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Mark Mardell
10 years
This is what relief looks like - with more than 7 m Americans signed up for health care - Obama sounds more triumphant than he has for ages
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Mark Mardell
4 years
I'm surprised this hasn't been picked up more in morning coverage. Even if an off the cuff jest, a real indication of his instinctive reaction to word "British' - will it impact Boris' plans in post Brexit talks ?
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Nick Bryant
4 years
"A quick word for the BBC?" "The BBC? I'm Irish."
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Mark Mardell
10 years
After a fascinating, hugely enjoyable 5 years in the States - moving back to UK to present R4 "world this weekend" - looking forward to it
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Mark Mardell
1 year
I know many friends left at t'Beeb will be delighted and hope it signals the beginning of the end for blatant cronyism & continual efforts to bully it into going soft on Govt's errors. trebles all round !
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Sima Kotecha
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BREAK - Richard Sharp has resigned as #BBC chairman after months of controversy around his help with the facilitating of a loan guarantee for former PM Boris Johnson
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Mark Mardell
11 years
At Newtown the shrine of teddy bears, Christmas trees flowers and candles heartbreaking http://t.co/Le1lNzHw
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Mark Mardell
9 years
Paris' motto is spray painted at Place de la République - tossed by the waves - but not sunk
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Mark Mardell
10 years
Obama tells critics of Iran deal the world needs an end to mistrust, not tough talk and bluster http://t.co/CgDruQOvq3
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Mark Mardell
5 years
A rare minister who has real mastery of his brief and apparently little ambition beyond doing his job well - not the sort this government can afford to lose
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iain watson
5 years
CONFIRMED alistair Burt ( at chequers yesterday) votes Against the govt and therefore will have to resign as fco minister
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Mark Mardell
10 years
Obama starts speech justifying spying on the British. Don't worry - it was during the war of independence.
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10 years
German rememberance - Is Europe's richest country about to over come its guilt and do more in the world ? http://t.co/FXqRppHkoZ
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Mark Mardell
7 years
this is pretty amazing - as Sam has just said on @BBCr4today May more hardline than DD
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Sam Coates Sky
7 years
Here is James Chapman, who worked at the heart of the Brexit dept, explaining how Theresa May "absolutist" stances making Brexit harder
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Mark Mardell
10 years
Obama says Putin can "throw a lot of words out there" but Russian "meddling" will push countries further away
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Mark Mardell
9 years
SNP claim they have 54% in Ruthglen and Hamilton West and have beaten Tom Greatrex - Labour very downbeat. GE2015
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Mark Mardell
3 years
I can't get past the @IrishTimes paywall but love the headline "The UK has declared a trade war on itself"
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Mark Mardell
8 years
There will many more such views from liberals over coming days - a result which will angrily divide not just USA but the world
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Simon Schama
8 years
This calamity for democracy will of course hearten fascists all over the world - from eastern Europe to le Pen.. and Putin's Russia a victor
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Mark Mardell
11 years
US networks keep talking about "solutions" after Newtown killings but much keener on grief, heroism & choirs than mentioning gun control
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Mark Mardell
10 years
Newtown a year on - priest tells me "I have never questioned my faith in God, I have questioned my faith in humanity" http://t.co/edR1qQQ8b4
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1 year
latest movers and shakers out now. This week’s episode includes electrodes and screaming – all sound a bit gothic but Gillian shows great courage talking about Deep Brain Stimulation -and shows us what happens when her remote control is switched off.
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Mark Mardell
4 years
Wow ! we won -- thanks so much to brilliant producer @JessicaB_BBC
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AIB Media Awards
4 years
In our NEWS REPORTING RADIO and AUDIO category our winner is World at One, BBC Radio 4 with Trump’s Tulsa Rally, and a Massacre in 1921 Congratulations!! @BBCRadio4 @BBCWorldatOne 🏆
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2 years
Parky makes me swap between painfully slow typing and the truly dreadful dictation function on Word but at least it made me giggle transcribing 'Liz Truss' as 'less trust'. Out of the mouths of babes and poor software ..
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Mark Mardell
7 years
was Wolf Blitzer handed the wrong envelope in November ....?
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Mark Mardell
10 years
24 banks fail stress test - too weak to withstand 3 yr recession says EBA
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Mark Mardell
10 years
#today Norman Baker calls for end to 'mindless rhetoric' on drugs. Good luck with that. Mindless rhetoric is powerfully adictive.
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Mark Mardell
4 years
Veteran - seems only yesterday I was 'young lad'. maybe 'doyen' one day -- init is the job of journalists to speak truth to power isn't it ?
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1. Veteran Mark Mardell has just left the BBC. He said goodbye to listeners of WATO and TWT and now feels free to speak his mind. He talks about his concerns over the reporting of Donald Trump and his supporters... @BBCRadio4 #bbcradio4 #BBCFeedback @JuniperTV @MarkIMardell
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Mark Mardell
10 years
US State Dept says they are preparing to put sanctions on Russia and are "moving down that path"
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9 years
#TW2 A doctor in Helmand provice tells us fighting appears to be getting worse - more serious injuries, amputations in the last month
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Mark Mardell
9 years
NATO flexes its muscles to reassure members - but does it really have a Russian strategy ? Kissinger thinks not. http://t.co/MoLYKnoNJV
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Mark Mardell
11 years
Obama says those responsible for Boston attacks will face "full weight of justice" - but does not use word "terrorism"
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Mark Mardell
5 years
Excellent piece - a must watch
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Lewis Goodall
5 years
For the last 6 weeks I've followed the @brexit_partyuk , from its very first rally to its last. The Tory party might be about to transform. If so, it started with the rise of this new force: an assault on British political life. My special report.
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10 years
Obama pretty tough - although not in the way some may like. He says there may be military action but onus is on Iraq's leaders
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8 years
Have we always been an island apart ?
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Mark Mardell
12 years
Both men were strong - perhaps Obama had the better night, with more attack, he did what he had to do -supporters will feel he's back
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9 years
Very tough statement from Tusk on Greece - game of chicken must end - Greek govt have to decide on Monday between good offer & default
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9 years
Labour’s Jimmy Hood, MP for Lanark and Hamilton East says "I think I’m going to be disappointed” and says tsunami going through Scotland.
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10 years
#R4today made my morning #Undermilkwood reading, w image of John Humphrys (in character)taking off his trousers and demanding a fight
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Mark Mardell
7 years
You should have asked 'Why no travel ban on people from Uranium ?'
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Jon Sopel
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My bosses have approved a new business card for me: Jon Sopel Another Beauty North America Editor
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Waiting for Obama in Belfast - but when will he talk in public about Syria shift ? http://t.co/Y69gxS3kOE http://t.co/KiuBMrxFpO
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Obama's European trip shows the limits of US power http://t.co/InoAMF6kmv
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@DenisMacShane Already happening - friend of daughter had her offer withdrawn
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Airforce 1 lands in Israel #bbcobama http://t.co/Fwb3qEgbNd
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7 years
The fact Ruth Davidson is calling for assurances on LGBT rights is taste of things to come - May a prisoner of her party
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9 years
Can't see Congress or Israel being very happy with #iran deal - but failure and implications not possible for White House
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10 years
#tw2 As the union flag is lowered at camp Bastion in Afgh I'll be asking former ambo Sir William Patey if it was all worth it. At 1 on R4
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9 years
Chair of biggest Greek bank tells #tw2 'insane' not to reach an agreement tomorrow - but not one that deepens poverty.
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8 years
Corbyn tells #Marr act of war is a very last resort but not a pacifist
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Mark Mardell
4 years
Listen to my interview with one of the Little Rock 9 - her terror then - her hopes for BLM now. #wato 1 pm BBCR4
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2 years
1 I do try to show restraint criticising old colleagues but fail to understand why presenters don’t ask the obvious of ministers defending BJ by banging on about vaccine role out – #R4Today
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2 – “OK you think he’s done a really good job but does that give him licence to break the rules ?” “If so, how far does that indulgence go? Parking on double yellow lines ? Theft ? Murder?” Feet to the fire ! #r4today
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12 years
#debate Romney blithering and caught out on whether the Libya attack was called "terror" Obama calmly satisfied. @BBCNewsUS
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3 years
BBC R4 1800 reports 'queues' but not a word on petrol stations closing - glad everything hunky dory in Yeadon but here in Surrey 5 places we passed were shut, M25 plastered with 'no fuel' warnings. Beeb avoiding 'panic' at expense of not reflecting reality
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10 years
At least they waited until Obama had gone home. But is Vietnam Asia's Ukraine ? http://t.co/hZeLXFl4Li
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Boston Globe says 3 new people taken into custody in connection w bombings are college students http://t.co/9i8wiFReoI
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