As a teenager starting her first job, Heidi Mansfield knocked on the door of a home for children whom she thought she was going to look after. What she didn’t know is that these were the most defenceless young people faced with physical disabilities, behaviour and mental health problems. Instead of apologising for her mistake […]
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Inside Story with Humphrey: Antony Thomas
How many of us have thought about being a filmmaker, even tried it, or wondered how an award-winning, box-office documentary is put together. Meet Antony Thomas on Goldster Inside Story whose book In the Line of Fire takes us far behind the scenes in the world of film. In a career, spanning half a century, Antony’s body […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Victoria Schofield
Victoria Schofield is one of Britain’s leading authors on military history and South Asia. She has written widely on Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. Her first book Bhutto: Trial and Execution was published in 1978 about the death sentence and hanging of the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, for conspiring to kill a political opponent. […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: He Jiahong
Drawing on his experience as Professor of Law at the People’s University in Beijing, He Jiahong, is a master of story-telling which takes us to incredible parts of China that we never see. His highly-acclaimed Hanging Devils is set in the early 1990s when lawyer Hong Jun, recently returned from the United States, sets up a fledgling […]
Read MorePurpose, Passion, Grit with Humphrey: Jim Clemente
In the mid-80’s, while working as a prosecutor in Manhattan, Jim Clemente was determined that the head of a summer camp who abused him when he was just fifteen should be punished. He went undercover to help in the arrest. The FBI then offered Jim a job, and he became a criminal profiler with the […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Alex Anstey
Goldster Inside Story takes you far behind the scenes of the National Health Service with our guest Alex Anstey, a consultant dermatologist at the Royal United Hospitals in Bath. In his highly-acclaimed book, Under the Skin: A Dermatologist’s Fight to Save the NHS, Alex shows us the realities of front-line NHS clinical services, taking the reader on […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Michael Vatikiotis
Michael Vatikiotis has been a writer, broadcaster and journalist in Asia for more than 35 years. With family origins in the Middle East, he has lived in Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand as well as Hong Kong. He currently lives in Singapore, working for the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, a private foundation that facilitates dialogue to resolve armed […]
Read MoreThe Democracy Forum live webinar
The Democracy Forum and TDF President Lord Bruce invite you to a live webinar, ‘Doublespeak & double standards: Pakistan’s take on Islamophobia’ on Wednesday May 25, 2022 at 2-4pm UK time Moderator Humphrey Hawksley, Author & former BBC Asia correspondent Panellists Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy, nuclear physicist and activist Kunwar Khuldune Shahid, correspondent for The Diplomat Speaker for the All-Party Parliamentary Group for […]
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