Really impressive BBC coverage on the events in Israel and Gaza today, presented by the fantastic #LyseDoucet
When the BBC is good, it's brilliant.
When the BBC is good, it's brilliant.
October 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Really impressive BBC coverage on the events in Israel and Gaza today, presented by the fantastic #LyseDoucet
When the BBC is good, it's brilliant.
When the BBC is good, it's brilliant.
I avoid all #BBCNews now , only #VictoriaDerbyshire or #LyseDoucet are worthy of being called #journalists
February 21, 2026 at 8:35 PM
I avoid all #BBCNews now , only #VictoriaDerbyshire or #LyseDoucet are worthy of being called #journalists
Writing is a solitary act, but… celebrating great writing isn’t :)
Brilliant eve at the #WomensPrize with founder #KateMosse & many book-lovers :)
Huge congrats to #LyseDoucet: #thefinesthotelinkabul , & Virginia Evans: #thecorrespondent .
Thank you all 📖📗📙📕📚
Brilliant eve at the #WomensPrize with founder #KateMosse & many book-lovers :)
Huge congrats to #LyseDoucet: #thefinesthotelinkabul , & Virginia Evans: #thecorrespondent .
Thank you all 📖📗📙📕📚
June 12, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Writing is a solitary act, but… celebrating great writing isn’t :)
Brilliant eve at the #WomensPrize with founder #KateMosse & many book-lovers :)
Huge congrats to #LyseDoucet: #thefinesthotelinkabul , & Virginia Evans: #thecorrespondent .
Thank you all 📖📗📙📕📚
Brilliant eve at the #WomensPrize with founder #KateMosse & many book-lovers :)
Huge congrats to #LyseDoucet: #thefinesthotelinkabul , & Virginia Evans: #thecorrespondent .
Thank you all 📖📗📙📕📚
The work of #LyseDoucet has been a guiding light for what is happening to people in the midst of different, all dreadful, war zones. She is one of the greatest ✨
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Donald Trump's Gaza peace deal is a huge moment but this is just the beginning
The BBC's Lyse Doucet reflects on how long-awaited negotiations to move forward, not further back, appear to be succeeding.
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October 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The work of #LyseDoucet has been a guiding light for what is happening to people in the midst of different, all dreadful, war zones. She is one of the greatest ✨
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Monica McWilliams broke the mould in so many ways, as a woman, as an activist and as a politician. In her frank and fascinating memoir, #StandUpSpeakOut she tells her extraordinary story.
Available now: blackstaffpress.com/stand-up-spe...
#LyseDoucet #MonicaMcWilliams
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#LyseDoucet #MonicaMcWilliams
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Monica McWilliams broke the mould in so many ways, as a woman, as an activist and as a politician. In her frank and fascinating memoir, #StandUpSpeakOut she tells her extraordinary story.
Available now: blackstaffpress.com/stand-up-spe...
#LyseDoucet #MonicaMcWilliams
Available now: blackstaffpress.com/stand-up-spe...
#LyseDoucet #MonicaMcWilliams
BBC’s #LyseDoucet talks to #female #Afghan #poets about the landay: a 22-syllable Pashtun verse form they create, perform+share to speak of #love, #sex, #war and hardship. 16.00 10.3.26 then #BBCSounds.
Only the BBC would do this. Free to hear. Funded by <48p per day per UK household licence fee.
Only the BBC would do this. Free to hear. Funded by <48p per day per UK household licence fee.
BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, Landays: Poems of Afghan Rebellion
Lyse Doucet explores the verse form which Afghan women share to speak of love and hardship
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March 9, 2026 at 8:57 PM
BBC’s #LyseDoucet talks to #female #Afghan #poets about the landay: a 22-syllable Pashtun verse form they create, perform+share to speak of #love, #sex, #war and hardship. 16.00 10.3.26 then #BBCSounds.
Only the BBC would do this. Free to hear. Funded by <48p per day per UK household licence fee.
Only the BBC would do this. Free to hear. Funded by <48p per day per UK household licence fee.
#WomensPrize: #VirginiaEvans wins for #fiction and #LyseDoucet takes award for #nonfiction. Evans’s The Correspondent and the BBC journalist’s ‘people’s history’ of modern Afghanistan, The Finest Hotel in Kabul, win £30,000 prizes www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j... 📚
June 12, 2026 at 6:51 AM
#WomensPrize: #VirginiaEvans wins for #fiction and #LyseDoucet takes award for #nonfiction. Evans’s The Correspondent and the BBC journalist’s ‘people’s history’ of modern Afghanistan, The Finest Hotel in Kabul, win £30,000 prizes www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j... 📚
Congratulations to the 2026 @womensprize.bsky.social winners!
Prize for Non-Fiction: #LyseDoucet for The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan.
Prize for Fiction: #VirginiaEvans for The Correspondent.
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#FemaleVoices #FemaleAuthors #Books #Reading
Prize for Non-Fiction: #LyseDoucet for The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan.
Prize for Fiction: #VirginiaEvans for The Correspondent.
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#FemaleVoices #FemaleAuthors #Books #Reading
Announcing the 2026 Winners of the Women's Prizes - Women's Prize
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June 12, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Congratulations to the 2026 @womensprize.bsky.social winners!
Prize for Non-Fiction: #LyseDoucet for The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan.
Prize for Fiction: #VirginiaEvans for The Correspondent.
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#FemaleVoices #FemaleAuthors #Books #Reading
Prize for Non-Fiction: #LyseDoucet for The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan.
Prize for Fiction: #VirginiaEvans for The Correspondent.
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#FemaleVoices #FemaleAuthors #Books #Reading
Watching the #BBCNews channel and somehow in the fog of war isn't #LyseDoucet admirable? Always factual, always measured, always objective. An ideal correspondent.
March 1, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Watching the #BBCNews channel and somehow in the fog of war isn't #LyseDoucet admirable? Always factual, always measured, always objective. An ideal correspondent.
Agreed. Outstanding work #lysedoucet
October 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Agreed. Outstanding work #lysedoucet
#VirginiaEvans and #LyseDoucet have each taken home a #WomensPrize this year, which is especially exciting since both winning books are debuts. The winners were announced on Thursday, June 11th at the #WomensPrizeTrust ’s annual celebration in London.
🔗 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 #booksky
🔗 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 #booksky
June 15, 2026 at 6:54 PM
#VirginiaEvans and #LyseDoucet have each taken home a #WomensPrize this year, which is especially exciting since both winning books are debuts. The winners were announced on Thursday, June 11th at the #WomensPrizeTrust ’s annual celebration in London.
🔗 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 #booksky
🔗 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 #booksky
#Women’sPrize: #VirginiaEvans wins for #fiction and #LyseDoucet takes award for #nonfiction
Evans’s The Correspondent and the BBC journalist’s ‘people’s history’ of modern Afghanistan, The Finest Hotel in Kabul, win £30,000 prizes
#Books #Literature
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Evans’s The Correspondent and the BBC journalist’s ‘people’s history’ of modern Afghanistan, The Finest Hotel in Kabul, win £30,000 prizes
#Books #Literature
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Women’s prize: Virginia Evans wins for fiction and Lyse Doucet takes award for nonfiction
Evans’s The Correspondent and the BBC journalist’s ‘people’s history’ of modern Afghanistan, The Finest Hotel in Kabul, win £30,000 prizes
www.theguardian.com
June 12, 2026 at 10:48 AM
#Women’sPrize: #VirginiaEvans wins for #fiction and #LyseDoucet takes award for #nonfiction
Evans’s The Correspondent and the BBC journalist’s ‘people’s history’ of modern Afghanistan, The Finest Hotel in Kabul, win £30,000 prizes
#Books #Literature
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Evans’s The Correspondent and the BBC journalist’s ‘people’s history’ of modern Afghanistan, The Finest Hotel in Kabul, win £30,000 prizes
#Books #Literature
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Just finished reading this wonderful book by #LyseDoucet on a beautiful calm sunny day on the #FenEdge. At times I cried while reading it, but such an important reminder never to forget what a charmed and easy life those of us fortunate to have been born in the UK, when were, have had.
Thanks Lyse.
Thanks Lyse.
May 24, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Just finished reading this wonderful book by #LyseDoucet on a beautiful calm sunny day on the #FenEdge. At times I cried while reading it, but such an important reminder never to forget what a charmed and easy life those of us fortunate to have been born in the UK, when were, have had.
Thanks Lyse.
Thanks Lyse.
Learning on BBC about celebrations in Syria and preparations for updating facilities & restarting tourism to grow the economy from #LyseDoucet on #BBCNews Channel - interrupted for #KemiBadenoch conference speech - navel gazing poison.
Turn to #SkyNews catch #JohnSwinney outlining #Independence 1/2
Turn to #SkyNews catch #JohnSwinney outlining #Independence 1/2
December 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Learning on BBC about celebrations in Syria and preparations for updating facilities & restarting tourism to grow the economy from #LyseDoucet on #BBCNews Channel - interrupted for #KemiBadenoch conference speech - navel gazing poison.
Turn to #SkyNews catch #JohnSwinney outlining #Independence 1/2
Turn to #SkyNews catch #JohnSwinney outlining #Independence 1/2
#LyseDoucet (to civilian interviewee in #Iran): “I hope you sell lots of shoes today”
Our government cannot accept this - #BBC offering support and good wishes for terrorists?
#MetPolice must arrest her on her return. Anyone wearing Iranian shoes will be jailed.
#Complicity #R4Today #Israel #USA
Our government cannot accept this - #BBC offering support and good wishes for terrorists?
#MetPolice must arrest her on her return. Anyone wearing Iranian shoes will be jailed.
#Complicity #R4Today #Israel #USA
April 22, 2026 at 6:49 AM
#LyseDoucet (to civilian interviewee in #Iran): “I hope you sell lots of shoes today”
Our government cannot accept this - #BBC offering support and good wishes for terrorists?
#MetPolice must arrest her on her return. Anyone wearing Iranian shoes will be jailed.
#Complicity #R4Today #Israel #USA
Our government cannot accept this - #BBC offering support and good wishes for terrorists?
#MetPolice must arrest her on her return. Anyone wearing Iranian shoes will be jailed.
#Complicity #R4Today #Israel #USA
Simon Reeve - Step by step
LyseDoucet - The Finest Hotel in Kabul
Daniel Chapman - 100yrs of Leeds United
LyseDoucet - The Finest Hotel in Kabul
Daniel Chapman - 100yrs of Leeds United
February 17, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Simon Reeve - Step by step
LyseDoucet - The Finest Hotel in Kabul
Daniel Chapman - 100yrs of Leeds United
LyseDoucet - The Finest Hotel in Kabul
Daniel Chapman - 100yrs of Leeds United
Lyse Doucet tonight in Edinburgh talking about her book 'The finest hotel in Kabul' next to another Intercontinental. #lysedoucet most enjoyable
October 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Lyse Doucet tonight in Edinburgh talking about her book 'The finest hotel in Kabul' next to another Intercontinental. #lysedoucet most enjoyable
Review of 'My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women',
introduced by #LyseDoucet.
#WITMonth #Booksky
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introduced by #LyseDoucet.
#WITMonth #Booksky
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Scapegoats: #WITMonth2026
William Holman Hunt, ‘The Scapegoat’ (1856). My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women, introduced by Lyse Doucet, with an afterword by Lucy Hannah. MacLehose Press, 202…
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August 18, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Review of 'My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women',
introduced by #LyseDoucet.
#WITMonth #Booksky
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introduced by #LyseDoucet.
#WITMonth #Booksky
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Journalism is NOT dead. Some GREAT stuff around e.g. #TheObserver, #TheGuardian, #Channel4, #BBC e.g. #OrlaGuerin & #LyseDoucet in #UK & various others from abroad. There’s been FABULOUS investigations done across the years with outfits across different countries getting together e.g #ICIJ.
June 23, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Journalism is NOT dead. Some GREAT stuff around e.g. #TheObserver, #TheGuardian, #Channel4, #BBC e.g. #OrlaGuerin & #LyseDoucet in #UK & various others from abroad. There’s been FABULOUS investigations done across the years with outfits across different countries getting together e.g #ICIJ.
#ArundhatiRoy and #SarahPerry longlisted for #Women’sPrize for #nonfiction
Sixteen authors – including #LeaYpi, #LyseDoucet and #BarbaraDemick – are in contention for the £30,000 award, launched to address a historic gender imbalance in nonfiction prizes
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
Sixteen authors – including #LeaYpi, #LyseDoucet and #BarbaraDemick – are in contention for the £30,000 award, launched to address a historic gender imbalance in nonfiction prizes
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
Arundhati Roy and Sarah Perry longlisted for Women’s prize for nonfiction
Sixteen authors – including Lea Ypi, Lyse Doucet and Barbara Demick – are in contention for the £30,000 award, launched to address a historic gender imbalance in nonfiction prizes
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:39 AM
#ArundhatiRoy and #SarahPerry longlisted for #Women’sPrize for #nonfiction
Sixteen authors – including #LeaYpi, #LyseDoucet and #BarbaraDemick – are in contention for the £30,000 award, launched to address a historic gender imbalance in nonfiction prizes
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
Sixteen authors – including #LeaYpi, #LyseDoucet and #BarbaraDemick – are in contention for the £30,000 award, launched to address a historic gender imbalance in nonfiction prizes
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
Viewing the violent and turbulant history of a country through the lives of people working and staying in a hotel is an original idea. And Lyse Doucet, or LyseDoucet as she is known by many in Afghanistan, makes it work.
August 4, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Viewing the violent and turbulant history of a country through the lives of people working and staying in a hotel is an original idea. And Lyse Doucet, or LyseDoucet as she is known by many in Afghanistan, makes it work.
@bsky.app
Sun 4 Sep | 9:00 at St Edward's Church, Alma Road.
Tickets: www.windsorfestival.com
#LiteraryHistory #talks #books #literaryfestival #Afghanistan #Kabul #kabulafghanistan #history #Afghanistan #AfghanHistory #lysedoucet #bookclub #bookclubreads
Sun 4 Sep | 9:00 at St Edward's Church, Alma Road.
Tickets: www.windsorfestival.com
#LiteraryHistory #talks #books #literaryfestival #Afghanistan #Kabul #kabulafghanistan #history #Afghanistan #AfghanHistory #lysedoucet #bookclub #bookclubreads
August 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
@bsky.app
Sun 4 Sep | 9:00 at St Edward's Church, Alma Road.
Tickets: www.windsorfestival.com
#LiteraryHistory #talks #books #literaryfestival #Afghanistan #Kabul #kabulafghanistan #history #Afghanistan #AfghanHistory #lysedoucet #bookclub #bookclubreads
Sun 4 Sep | 9:00 at St Edward's Church, Alma Road.
Tickets: www.windsorfestival.com
#LiteraryHistory #talks #books #literaryfestival #Afghanistan #Kabul #kabulafghanistan #history #Afghanistan #AfghanHistory #lysedoucet #bookclub #bookclubreads
Thinking exactly same about respected #BBC foreign affairs correspondent #LyseDoucet on #r4 just now.
April 1, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Thinking exactly same about respected #BBC foreign affairs correspondent #LyseDoucet on #r4 just now.
We also need #lysedoucet on This platform
December 3, 2024 at 2:16 PM
We also need #lysedoucet on This platform
