Megan Jones
@megannj
Currently @bbcworldservice 🌎 Usually @bbcwm @bbcmtd📻 Before @bbcnews @globalsnewsroom @bauermedia 📻 She/Her 👩🏻💻 Vegan-ish 🌱🏋🏻♀️
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11-01-2013 19:11:25
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❄️ Ahead of Paris 2024 starting, I’ve been finding out about the first ever The Olympic Games ‘mascot’ for Witness History on BBC World Service ⛷️ Shuss, the cartoon skier, was created for the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble 🇫🇷 Listen here ⬇️📻 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…
🎨 Did you know you the #Olympics used to include painting, sculpture, literature, architecture + music? 🧑🎨 The last Olympic art competition was in 1948 🥈 I spoke to the son of a Canadian composer who won a silver medal for the BBC World Service 📻 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…
🩺 Saving lives with ‘spray on skin’ 🔬 A groundbreaking invention by burns surgeon Professor Fiona Wood which was revolutionary after the 2002 Bali bombings. 📻 I spoke to Prof Wood for BBC World Service and you can hear more BBC Sounds ⬇️ bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…
In 2003, French actress Marie Trintignant was killed by her rock star boyfriend Bertrand Cantat. Witness History’s Vicky Farncombe spoke to journalist Michelle Fines to learn more about the celebrity murder that divided France bbc.in/4cvf0hM
Looking for something to listen to on your lunch break? Check out this fascinating account from the BBC World Service about 'The woman who spoke to the space station'. It focuses on amateur radio enthusiast Maggie Iaquinto, who made contact with Russian cosmonauts in 1990. (1/2)
BBC World Service (2/2) Hear her conversations with the Mir space station and find out more as Megan Jones speaks to Maggie's son Ben Iaquinto at: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…
Thanks for sharing ARISS - Amateur Radio on the ISS 👏🏻
We made a thing about the frustration of rail travel…especially heading from London to the North Bravo to the brilliant Vicky Farncombe the brains (and train wrangler) behind this, and ace editor Clare Fordham who kept us on track (ehem) Listen on BBC Sounds & BBC Radio 4 from 4pm
There are thousands of amateur radio enthusiasts around the world. Some of them have daily conversations with astronauts on International Space Station. Maggie was one of them. In 1990, she spoke to cosmonauts on the Mir space station for the first time. Hear the full story on BBC Sounds ⬇️