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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

7 years

Ed Miliband just attempted to sing death-metal on Radio 2, tutored by the lead singer of Napalm Death. You're welcome.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

2 years

Stunning and devastating opening from Newsnight tonight. Harsh, yes. Media students (and current broadcast journalists!) take note: your edit is nothing without the right choice of music. And oh boy this is quite the choice.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

6 years

This is so on the money it hurts. #woke #microaggression

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

Alan Partridge just emailed everyone in the BBC.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

4 years

Walked past Harry Styles doing autographs and selfies with fans today. Walked past the same spot again just after he left, 20 mins later. It was absolute chaos. People screaming. Weeping. Calling loved ones. Huddled in groups on the floor hugging and sobbing. That man is popular.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

This CNN live poll is not going so well for the UK

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

30 days

Hands up if you’re part of the generation which had to dye some of your school homework with tea and singe the edges.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

2 years

Dear all call centres: if you are experiencing a "higher than normal volume of calls" and have been for months on end, you are in fact "experiencing a normal number of calls" and you just have a really long queue.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

I just showed Evelyn Glennie, the famous percussionist, the footage of Jeremy Corbyn in the Commons. She's deaf and can lip read. She wasn't aware of the story and her interpretation of what he said was "stupid woman". She says she's very certain. @theJeremyVine @BBCPolitics

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

4 years

The person who started the #clapforcarers movement in the UK, Annemarie Plas, has just told @theJeremyVine she believes next Thursday's clap - the 10th one - would be a nice place to end it.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

3 years

If you find the news a bit glum lately do this dance when BBC News comes on to inspire joy

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

2 years

Can I just give a shoutout to whoever decided that lateral flow test kits should include one of these. I feel their contribution to the pandemic is underrated.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

The Wetherspoons dress code is very strict.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

Ha! @theJeremyVine just ended a conversation with a caller by accidentally saying “love you” 🤣🤣 @BBCRadio2

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

4 years

Washing your hands is all very well but I want to see the official guidance on how you then exit the toilet without touching anything else. (Something like this perhaps?)

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

Remember the extraordinary time Rage Against the Machine made Christmas #1 in 2009? I'm just re-living the moment when 5Live booked them for an interview/performance (HUGE CREDIT) & expected them not to swear (LESS CREDIT) and this incredible broadcasting moment happened:

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

6 years

Look at how much fun the Trooping of the Colour is on DOUBLE SPEED

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

3 years

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Patrick Thomas

@ThePatrickT

3 years

@timoncheese You can’t post this and then not post a video of you doing it.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

6 years

Ed Miliband, with a bell, all dressed up, shouting “it’s coming home”, live on national radio. #worldcup

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

2 years

credit I think to @adamlivingst0n3

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

The wonderful moment Sir Rod Stewart phoned in to Radio 2 to tell @theJeremyVine that he built his giant model railway himself. He said “a lot of people laugh at it” but “I’m so proud of it”. 🔊😁😁😁 ( @Priyapas )

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

6 years

That pie from Harry Hill is really travelling at speed when it hits Piers Morgan's face.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

7 years

This job with the BBC is almost certainly yours if you can understand a single sentence of the job description.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

3 years

Slam dunk

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

2 years

What a radio moment - @ChrisMasonBBC explaining live on Radio 4 how it’s odd he hasn’t heard from Downing Street in a while - when his phone rings… (ps. love the title of the programme Today is gatecrashing)

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

7 years

Had a meeting today. Someone booked a meeting room. Spent 30 mins touring entire London BBC HQ trying to find it. Turns out booked room was in Cardiff. #W1A

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

4 years

Spot the problem. I just disconnected the u-bend under the sink. Then I poured the water from the u-bend down the sink. If you need any DIY jobs doing just let me know.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

A reminder that Twitter is 5000% more manageable if you don't engage with any tweet from people not using real names and photos.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

7 years

Do you have an OLD toilet at home? With a high-up cistern? Pull handle flush? Do you love it? Want to tell Ed Miliband about it on Radio 2?

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

1 year

For those familiar with this audio editing software, I present to you this photo I just took with no further comment

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

6 years

We discussed Apple vs. Android smartphones on the radio this week and then Carina got in touch and yes basically this: @theJeremyVine

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

4 years

Loaaaaddddssss of people outside work today all beaming and smiling at me as arrived then I realised I was walking through the doors with Harry Styles.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

4 years

I just spoke to a listener who told me for breakfast she eats Weetabix with butter on. No milk. She said quite a few people do this. SURELY NOT?

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

I've spent years working on radio phone-ins. - people actually think hands-free sounds ok. It doesn't. - people actually think speakerphone sounds ok. It doesn't. - you *think* your mobile signal is reliable but it isn't. - iPhones are awful for phone calls. 1/5

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

7 years

No matter your politics, in a democracy you have the right not to be thrown down stairs #CatalanReferedendum

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

3 years

Apparently @theJeremyVine went a bit viral on TikTok today for all the wrong reasons thanks to this video which many younger and cooler colleagues sent me today

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

4 years

Perhaps the biggest question for many without a definitive answer: “Can I see my mum?”* (*/dad/children/grandchildren/loved ones etc - assuming social distancing is observed, no public transport etc)

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

7 years

That graph showing BBC is 'most trusted'. Some from The Sun complain it's skewed because it's an 'either or' question and BBC has largest reach. Perhaps they'd prefer this one:

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

This is the best montage of the 2019 general election I’ve seen. Editing geeks take note: the music choice and the way it’s cut to the track is brilliant. The final second is the winner. Brilliant @BBCNewsnight

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

3 years

Turkeys are the audience you never knew you needed

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

4 years

Tricky messages for worried parents. Gavin Williamson in August: “there is little evidence that the virus is transmitted at school”. Boris Johnson in September: "It is, alas, a fact of the disease that it is readily transmissible between children and adults".

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

3 years

Enjoying a bit of time off work. It’s absolutely lovely and entirely relaxing (one of these is not true). ❤️

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

6 days

Greatly saddened by the news about Michael Mosley. He was just as excited about everything off air as on air! I once told him my mum was a big fan and minutes later I sent her this picture, which is now awfully bittersweet. He was only ever a pleasure to deal with and chat to. ❤️

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

Alan Partridge was 'born' on tele as part of 'The Day Today' - perhaps my favourite ever comedy. Pure gold.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

No other *colleague* in my decade at the BBC has taught me so how to go ‘hands-free’ in a train toilet. Thanks, Alan.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

Our radio phone-in switchboard is jammed with people who are completely torn over who to vote for in the election. SO complicated. Many lifelong voters to one party switching away. Going to be incredibly hard to predict. Simple polling questions will struggle to capture the mood.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

7 months

Monumental congrats to @vernonkay for raising a jaw-dropping sum for BBC Children in Need. Extraordinary effort. And big up my colleagues - I hope it wins awards for the epic, emotional, invested, joined up, wholesome and heartwarming week of radio that it was. ( @ThePatrickT 👀)

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

8 years

. @theJeremyVine just got knocked over by a Great Dane live on the radio

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

OMG this is just amazing. Radio nerds eat your heart out! cc @theJeremyVine

Nathan Turvey

@nathanturvey

5 years

When I was about 13 years old I wrote to my radio hero #KennyEverett to ask him if he would make me some jingles. I was utterly amazed when a few months later this reel to reel arrived in the post!!! Here are a few of them #radiogold

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

Would you like to see the most exhilarating lift-journey in the BBC’s offices?

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

3 years

NATIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT #ENGDEN #EURO2020 @Ed_Miliband

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

2 years

Who needs Wordle when you have this?

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

4 years

Hey audio geeks. You wouldn't believe how many 128kbps MP3s I've put out on national radio. I'm not even sorry. #sorry

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

7 years

This is the kind of stuff we get when we cover the holocaust. This man thinks it's 'propaganda' to assert that the holocaust happened.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

4 years

This is sad news not just for Iain and Kath but for the wider radio industry. Something truly distinctive, personal and creative is coming to an end. And that’s precisely the thing we need more of.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

2 months

I’ve designed a t-shirt for radio producers

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

I LOVE that many people outside of the UK have seen this tweet and taken it at face value. So many replies about 'Alan' being an awful co-worker. Terribly rude. 'How dare he'. 🤣 *waves a flag for satire*

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

3 years

As a very special treat and because Jeremy's on leave this week, I'm excited that we've asked the one and only @ChrisMasonBBC to keep the chair warm (and he said yes)! On Radio 2 at 12. If you're lucky he'll start with Madonna.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

1 year

@SarahDuggers what a modern day hero. We've immediately booked her to come on Radio 2. She's done loads of videos like this!

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

4 years

That rendition of We’ll Meet Again was an absolute production masterpiece. Incredibly complicated to make. Perfectly judged. Wow.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

2 years

Hopefully by the BBC’s 200th birthday they will have fixed the printers.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

ps. Radio producers take note: if a rebellious band has the lyric "F**k you I won't do what you tell me" and you tell them not to swear on air, you're in for a bumpy ride.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

4 years

An hour ago @theJeremyVine spoke to 8-year-old Polly who's been walking/running a mile a day to raise money for the zebras at her local farm zoo. Her target was £100. She was really pleased to have actually raised £300+. However since then...

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

4 years

As a radio geek I get a slight thrill from calling guests on my smartphone, plugging a cable in, and the next minute they're being broadcast across the UK on Radio 2. eg. Currently this is my phone bringing Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti live to the nation!

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

3 years

News alerts which start with the words 'The Queen' are incredibly stressful.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

3 years

Forgive my lack of knowledge about football but how come you don’t get sent off for this?

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

3 years

The brill thing about @lewismacleod pretending to be @theJeremyVine doing the daily trail with @RealKenBruce today was that Jeremy had absolutely zero idea about it right up to the moment he fully expected to be speaking on air as usual! Thanks to some tricksy work by @PipMcGyver

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@BBCRadio2

3 years

Here's @thejeremyvine 's reaction to this morning's #AprilFools ... 😂 It really is a superb impression, @lewismacleod !

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

4 years

An unlikely fan of this police raid in our local paper

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

7 years

I see they picked a really diverse choir #inauguration

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

Huge response on @BBCRadio2 when we played the speech by 15y/o climate activist Greta Thunberg yesterday. She says: 'do more to help the environment'. In a moment @RHarrabin tells @theJeremyVine about the govt's new waste policy.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

3 years

It's the seven-year anniverary of when a listener in France responded to a story about a rollercoaster decapitating a deer by sending us a postcard.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

3 years

After a long and busy day in the office in London I hopped on the train home to Bedford with visions of a walk in the park in the sunshine. Except it was the wrong train. And the first stop is LEICESTER. 🤦‍♂️

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

Everyone’s focussed on the pro-Trump bloke and the screaming lady. But look at the poor police woman! What an awful thing to try and marshal. All credit to her.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

4 years

Hi. Six years ago today @theJeremyVine interviewed this chicken. This is no longer allowed under social distancing measures.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

2 years

This screenshot from the BBC News website suggests that a colleague in Dorset never misses the opportunity to keep readers up to date with this particular local event

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

4 years

How super-nice 😀 I'm celebrating by self-isolating and hanging up the washing

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@WeAreAudioUK

4 years

The winner of Best News and Current Affairs Producer in the #APAs20 is… @timoncheese - BBC Audio 🎉 🎉 🎉

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

4 years

Lovely response to how @theJeremyVine finished the programme today. Words below. Thank you. What a few weeks it’s been!!

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@theJeremyVine that was very moving 🌈🌈🌈😢❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

4 years

Don't you just love it when you're trying to book a shepherd to shear a sheep live on Radio 2 and you phone someone who says "I've got a flock of 650 and we've sheared 649 of them but I'll happily do the last one for you on air"?

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

7 years

I've just been reliving the time Ed Miliband met the lead singer of Napalm Death on Radio 2. Wow. It may or may not have made it to our 'review of the year' this Christmas... @Ed_Miliband @officialND @theJeremyVine

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

4 years

Yeah no that’s all good brilliant

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

6 years

When you get the same train to work every day you see the same people. Here’s a shoutout to some of mine - I’ve never uttered a word to any of them...

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

7 years

If you have a very hairy dog and the possibility of Ed Miliband grooming it for you appeals, please get in touch. #journorequest

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

3 years

The Radio 2 breakfast show team have been chatting to Adele and hanging with Chris Martin. I, meanwhile, am in a highly detailed email conversation with a listener called Nigel about the wattage of his heat pump. #showbiz

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

The person who started this petition complains of Jeremy's 'pro vaccine' outlook, calls for him to do more research, and says he's a 'menace'. May I politely suggest that she has a lot more research to do, and that anti-vaxxers are a far greater menace to public health than he is

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Rare to RT a petition calling for one's own sacking, but this feels like one I should be proud of. #Vaccines

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

Sorry Brenda

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

4 years

Don't you just love it when you call George Monbiot and ask him to discuss polluted rivers on Radio 2 and he not only says "yes, I'll be on a river at that time" but also "I'll be with Feargal Sharkey who's campaigning on this issue and can also talk to you".

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

6 years

Normal air con broken at work + studio equipment must not overheat = emergency air con. Emergency air con = very cold. Very cold = @theJeremyVine wraps up in old shawl we find on coathanger even during an interview with Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson. = THIS PHOTOGRAPH

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

Basically anyone who's ever worked in music radio will love/hate this.

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Nothing wakes you up like the fear a song hasn’t been properly censored... 😳 Morning! 🎙

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

Phoned HMRC today with a question about my student loan deductions. Guy I spoke to said “I’ve no idea” and “your guess is as good as mine”. When I said the HMRC seemed a mess he said “yeah you should try working here” and “don’t ask for a letter or it’ll take three months!”.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

5 years

ps. Let's not get started on why Facetime/Luci/Skype would be better in the first place! Final thought - when I put a caller on air I ask them to turn their radio off first. It's really noticeable how many more people (especially since Christmas 2018) now yell "ALEXA STOP!". 5/5

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

9 years

Here's Nicky with the UK's most remarkable bionic hand talking to @theJeremyVine @BBCRadio2 #r2vine http://t.co/c8lZdNPrvi

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

3 years

This body language goes out to every reporter who’s ever had to cover bad weather by being made to stand in it

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

3 years

Threatening legal action to keep schools in Greenwich open last week has really not aged well.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

7 years

I've been watching #imaceleb this year. And I'm a fully signed up #teamiain member. Anyone else? Basically he's brilliant and they're mean to him. #teamiainlee

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

2 years

He’s not on social media so probably won’t see this. I’ll tell him to his face too…but just to say my boss Phil Jones retired today and he’s a legend. And I don’t even like the word legend! I want to thank him for everything he’s done for me. Which is a LOT! Indulge me… 1/

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

3 months

The most important email I've sent today.

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Tim Johns

@timoncheese

4 years

Every working day for years now I’ve walked though St Pancras station in London. It’s always packed. Hectic. Busy. Full. Especially at peak times. Look at it today on my journey to work at the BBC.