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The secret world of babies

March 28, 2018

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My son's first assignment! We visited the Babylab at Birkbeck and found out about their latest research for BBC Future.

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BBC Future Planet Stories!

I joined the lovely BBC Future Planet team last year, reporting on environmental and climate solutions - essentially, evidence-backed efforts to make our lives better, more sustainable, and more wildlife-friendly. It's been wonderful editing the team's fascinating stories as well as writing my own, such as this one on making offshore wind farms more porpoise-friendly ; and a couple of bird migration specials on the flying scientists leading rare birds to their new winter site , and storks returning to Britain after 600 years , thanks to a rewilding project.

The kids who smuggled out an East German defector

It's not often that you get to revisit your little hometown, speak to a group of people who grew up around you, and stumble across a story involving a Stasi file, a bugged Trabant, an East German defector and a bunch of teenagers on a school trip . And then have someone make it into a podcast with brilliant 1980s tunes . This feature for the Guardian took me back to the 1980s, and stirred up memories of my own childhood in the divided Germany. It made me look at my hometown in a different light, and led to lots of conversations about family, politics, belonging - and how hard it can be to do the right thing when the world around you is wrong. One thing that struck me was the timeliness of this story. It's about young people challenging conditions that the older generation has accepted as the norm. Today, as children are separated from their parents at borders around the world, teenagers are taking to the streets to urge action on the climate crisis, and refugees are r...

Confession with Blue Horses / Unser geteilter Sommer - Neuerscheinung!

Confession with Blue Horses gibt es jetzt auch auf Deutsch - als 'Unser geteilter Sommer' , in einer wundervollen Übersetzung von Ulrike Sterblich. Es war wirklich schön und bewegend, die Geschichte bei ihrer sprachlichen Heimkehr zu begleiten und durch Ulrike Sterblichs elegante Übersetzung nochmal ganz neu zu erleben.

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