# #167. A BBC Journalist and News Anchor on How His Two Identities, as Journalist and Jew, Inform One Another

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Podcast: [Delving In with Stuart Kelter](https://stenobird.com/podcast/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973)
Published: 2025-09-14T16:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://delving-in.captivate.fm
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Tim Franks has been a journalist with the BBC since 1990, as a producer, reporter, and presenter. He has covered British politics, including the conflict Northern Ireland in the years leading up to the Good Friday Agreement, as well as international issues, as a foreign correspondent on the scene in Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories, and in war zones, such as Iraq during the war of 2003, and in Gaza during the current war there. Since 2013 he has been a presenter – or in American parlance, an anchor – for  Newshour , the BBC World Service flagship radio news program. This interview will focus primarily on his recently published book,  The Lines We Draw: The Journalist, the Jew, and an Argument About Identity. Recorded 9/9/25.

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