While climbing Everest and trekking to the South Pole, he was also the owner of the world’s most northern hotel on the island of Spitsbergen far up in the Arctic Circle. He has written numerous books drawing on his high-risk expeditions and two stunning novels: Everest: The Death Zone (2017) and The Great Bear (2019). […]
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Purpose, Passion, Grit talk with Humphrey Hawksley and Lanre Olagoke
Nigeria’s Lanre Olagoke, a celebrated international artist, was once a homeless, sleeping rough on the streets of London in a world of drugs anmd poverty. Arriving in London from Nigeria, aged nineteen, Lanre slid into an abyss which he puts down his own weakness and his parents failing to understand his love of art. Lanre […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Anthony Franze
It’s a year exactly since protestors stormed the Capitol building in what is widely described as an attempted coup, and for our second New Year Goldster Inside Story we are travelling to Washington, D.C. – the heart of US horse-trading, power-broking and politics – to talk to Anthony Franze, a Supreme Court lawyer who has […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Hilary Brown
Hilary Brown is a pioneering, boundary-breaking journalist who covered wars from Vietnam to Iraq and was the first female foreign correspondent hired by the American television network ABC News. She was one of the last journalists to be lifted by helicopter from the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon in 1975, during the Communist takeover […]
Read MoreThe Democracy Forum live webinar
Chair Humphrey Hawksley, Author & former BBC Asia correspondent Panellists Tempa Gyaltsen Zamlha, Deputy Director, Tibet Policy Institute Dr Shalini Dhyani, South Asia Regional Chair for IUCN Commission on Ecosystems Management Dr Sumit Vij, Postdoctoral Researcher, Wageningen University & Research Dr Kasia Paprocki, Associate Professor in Environment, Dept of Geography & Environment, London School of […]
Read MoreGoldster Book Club with Humphrey: The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea is the classic by Ernest Hemingway who tells the story of Santiago, an elderly Cuban fisherman with little but hope to sustain him through a punishing life. Published in 1952, it was Hemingway’s last substantive work after novels that recast modern literature such as A Farewell to Arms (1929), […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Michael Ridpath
From murder mysteries in the windswept landscapes of Iceland, to tales of chilling greed in the world of banking, to knife-edge dramas involving incidents that brought the world to the very brink of nuclear catastrophe, Michael Ridpath is among Britain’s most versatile bestselling novelists. His first novel, Free to Trade (1995), was a financial thriller […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Lucinda Hawksley
When writing this book, Lucinda went on an exploration of the 19th-century phenomenon that became the Christmas we know and love today, and of the writer who changed, forever, the ways in which it is celebrated. That writer also happens to be Lucinda’s great-great-great-grandfather. Charles Dickens was born in an age of enormous social upheaval. […]
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