Joseph Conrad’s famous novella, Heart of Darkness, is about a treacherous river journey to find a man who has lost his mind to the African jungle. Conrad is skilled in bouncing a myriad of meanings off his story-telling which is why Heart of Darkness is one of world’s most studied and critiqued books. The story itself is told […]
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Purpose, Passion, Grit with Humphrey: Alexander Scrimgeour
Alexander Scrimgeour treats anxiety and stress disorders through innovative reflexology techniques that he learned primarily at the Institute of Traditional Vietnamese Medicine in Ho Chi Minh City or Saigon. It is housed in Vietnam’s largest teaching hospital where a whole floor is dedicated to the treatment and palliative support of cancer, another for stroke rehabilitation, […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Austin S. Camacho
Hannibal Jones is a trouble shooter, fighter of evil and a dogged investigator who finds himself up against organised crime and city corruption helping victims who are mostly the sick and most vulnerable. Hannibal’s creator is Austin S Camacho who returns to Goldster Inside Story on the publication week of his latest in the series, […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Michael Arditti
Playwright, critic and literary novelist, Michael Arditti, tackles deep moral issues in his latest book The Choice which revolves around the rector of an ancient country church in Chesire. She chances upon the chief bell-ringer and husband of her closest friend, fondling a fifteen-year-old boy. Will she choose friendship or conscience, sympathy or her official […]
Read MorePurpose, Passion, Grit with Humphrey: Corie Map
A Lance Corporal in the British Army, Corie Mapp lost both legs when his military vehicle ran over an explosive device in Afghanistan in 2010. Among other injuries, he suffered a broken jaw, severed lip and punctured lung. Three years later he was representing Great Britain at the European Championships for sitting volleyball. And, since […]
Read MoreThe Democracy Forum Live Webinar
The Democracy Forum and TDF President Lord Bruce invite you to a live webinar: ‘Drivers of China’s nuclear build-up’ on Wednesday August 16, 2023 from 2-4pm UK time (BST) Chair: Humphrey Hawksley, Author & former BBC Asia correspondent Panellists: John Erath, Senior Policy Director for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Dr Tong Zhao, […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Roger Moorhouse
Acclaimed historian Roger Moorhouse brings us a gripping Second World War story of forgers whose documents saved the lives of thousands of Jews facing extermination in the Holocaust. Under the leadership of the Aleksander Lados, the Polish Ambassador to Switzerland, they undertook a systematic programme of forging identity documents for Latin American countries, which were […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey Live at Riverstone: Dr Ben Cave
For over thirty years, Dr Ben Cave has been working in prisons and secure hospitals diagnosing and treating some of the most troubled men and women in society. A lifetime of care takes us from delusional disorders to schizophrenia, steroid abuse to drug dependency, personality disorders to paedophilia, and depression so severe a mother can […]
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