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A Jewish Journalist at the BBC

Tim Franks

- A prominent broadcaster with the BBC World Service

- A former Middle East correspondent
Uncovering an uncharted family history, spanning continents and centuries.

Tim Franks has presented Newshour, the flagship news and current affairs programme on the BBC World Service, since 2013. Before that, he spent almost 20 years as a reporter.  Tim covered the Troubles in Northern Ireland before heading to Westminster and becoming the Today programme’s special political correspondent.

Tim spent nine years as a BBC foreign correspondent, based in Washington, Brussels and Jerusalem, and travelling across Europe and the Middle East. He’s covered several major conflicts, from Iraq and Israel-Lebanon, to South Sudan and Ukraine. Tim won one of the most prestigious international war-reporting awards – the Bayeux – for his coverage of war in Gaza.  He also spent two years as the BBC’s most improbable sports correspondent.  

Although he’s now based in London, with Newshour, Tim does still regularly report from the field, and has co-presented the programme from locations as diverse as Managua, Beijing, Addis Ababa, Caracas, Damascus, Berlin, Bujumbura and Damascus.

Tim’s book The Lines We Draw: The Journalist, the Jew and an Argument about Identity was published by Bloomsbury in July, and has received glowing reviews -
“As you would expect, it is a globetrotting memoir that takes the reader across his family story, taking in Portugal, London and his time at the BBC’s Middle East bureau, but what makes this brilliant, considered book worthwhile is not its breadth but how thoughtful it is.”  (Financial Times)