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Rebecca Parker

@becsparker

Broadcaster. Executive Producer. Journalist. Presenter of Gardeners’ Questions and Life Stories on @BBCSounds and @BBCRadioSolent. Likes to hit a ball! 🎾

 Winchester
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Joined October 2010
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Still buzzing after watching THAT @cam_norrie game @Wimbledon today. What a game. Huge congratulations. Can’t beat a British crowd at a sporting event. Such a brilliant atmosphere and great support. 🎾❤️💪 #Norrie
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Imagine being 17 & buzzing about seeing your team @SouthamptonFC playing tmrw. THEN (the day before) you have three separate chance encounters with @J_Aribo19 @ryanmanning4 AND Russell Martin!! 😮 What are the chances?! Lots of excited chatter in our house tonight. ⚽️ #saintsfc
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What is the Perseid meteor shower? 🔭 Great explanation here from ⁦@WinSciCentre⁩ on ⁦@BBCSounds⁩ #perseidmeteorshower bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jj08…
Explained: What is the Perseid meteor shower? - BBC Sounds

Explained: What is the Perseid meteor shower? - BBC Sounds

Dr Nikhil Mistry is the Head of Curiosity at Winchester Science Centre and Planetarium.

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You can’t see it but trust me the #SaintsFc team bus is over there somewhere!! The players must be loving it!
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That moment when you’ve finished an utterly compelling book @JoBrowningWroe & you’re not quite ready to pick up something else because you are still holding onto the loveliness of the last read. #storytelling ❤️
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Really interesting chat with ⁦@SFCsumma⁩ & ⁦@AdamBlackmore⁩ on ⁦@BBCRadioSolent⁩ about sexism targeted at female football fans. #saintsfc #football bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0grx7…
“You're just a pick-me girl” - Saints fan on sexism - BBC Sounds

“You're just a pick-me girl” - Saints fan on sexism - BBC Sounds

Summa says male fans have accused her of attention seeking.

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End of an era on @BBCRadioSolent but will always cherish the memories, laughter & friendship. So lucky to have gardening as part of the day job for so long. 🙏 Same place of work just different direction. 😊 Thanks for being part of it. ❤️#bbclocal
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Our Gardeners' Questions presenter @becsparker as flowers 💐 - A thread 🧵👇 First up, Begonia 😍
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Iris Reticulate 💙
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Zinnia 😍💐
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Lovely Lobelia 🦋
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And finally, Fuchsia! 😍💖
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Join us for loads of gardening fun (and bad jokes) tmrw. 😊❤️
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Join @becsparker for her last Gardeners' Questions this Sunday. Listen here 👉 bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fzkcj… @PipBensley @AndyMcIndoe @Rosyhardy62 @DavidHurrion
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Really hope you can join us for our last Gardeners’ Questions together this Sunday @BBCRadioSolent with @AndyMcIndoe @PipBensley @Rosyhardy62 @DavidHurrion and more. Great memories & grateful for the fab times. ❤️ More laughs to follow this Sun:bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09c7v6… #gardening
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Got a problem in your garden? Join @becsparker for a fun Gardeners' Questions from 10 with Steve Austin @BallHort. 🌲 Later Becs will find out about a community garden in Wimborne. Listen here: bbc.in/44O8j76
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Listen back to Life Stories with Geoff Holt @WetWheels chatting to @becsparker about his life in sailing and plans for the future. 📻 bbc.in/46IMZ4D
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Today with @becsparker we welcome a new expert to #gardenersquestions @martyncoxgarden Plus Patrick Fairweather @FairweathersGC chats Agapanthas ...
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From 10 today... Gardeners' Questions with @becsparker & Steve Austin. 🌳 A visit to Queen Eleanor's Garden in Winchester and in Life Stories @MandyHickson talks about her time as a @RoyalAirForce Tornado GR4 pilot.
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Life goals: when your frock, microphone and subject matter are colour co-ordinated. Lavender & agapanthus chat coming soon to @BBCRadioSolent @BBCSounds with Patrick @FairweathersGC. (Who even had purple specs…) ☀️
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Thanks Jack. Loved it!! ⛳️
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Our Summer challenge is for the team to try a sport they've never done before. 🏌️‍♀️ @becsparker tried her hand at golf, with the help of Jack Coulbert at Swanmore Golf Centre: bbc.in/43XLTQo
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