Delighted to be presenting a program on plants and empire for BBC World Service Available on BBC Sounds from next Tuesday

‘I have to try and do my job as honestly as I can’ Enlightening ⁦rosie kinchen⁩ interview with the BBC’s Russia editor ⁦Steve Rosenberg⁩ thetimes.co.uk/article/steve-…

The BBC’s piano-playing Russia editor Steve Rosenberg, first visited the country in 1987 and has barely left since. He tells rosie kinchen what day to day life is like in Moscow and why the Kremlin lets him stay — for now thetimes.co.uk/article/steve-…

I went to Kew Gardens to explore the link between plants and empire. Includes 150 year old rubber seeds and a Herculean effort to digitise 9mil plant specimens. Available to steam now on BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

What an extraordinary piece (make sure you have tissues before you start though)

We've launched The Times and The Sunday Times & Sunday Times Christmas Appeal 2023 with 3 amazing charities Whizz Kidz Street Child Feeding Britain Our journalists will be reporting on their life-changing work over the next month & you can donate here #TimesChristmasAppeal thetimes.co.uk/Christmasappeal

What happens when that dream home birth goes wrong? With trust in NHS maternity services at a low, women are turning to private midwives and doulas, some with extreme views on childbirth.

Very sad to hear that this woman has died after a 'freebirth'. She was an active member of the communities I talked about in my Sunday Times Magazine piece two weeks ago thejournal.ie/maternal-death…