Namita’s latest novel The Blind Matriarch is a family saga told from the viewpoint of a blind grandmother living on the top floor of a rambling house, shared with her large extended family. This timely novel explores the clamour and complexity of multi-generational households in India and is described as “a clear-eyed chronicle of the […]
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Inside Story with Humphrey: K J Howe
Where would you find The Day of the Jackal’s Frederick Forsyth, Game of Thrones’ George R. R. Martin, Rambo’s David Morell, and Jack Reacher’s Lee Child chatting together under one roof with a glittering array of authors, agents and publishers. The place would be the International Thriller Writers’ annual conference in New York hosted by […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Peter Hughes
Why is it so easy to hate and difficult to love? When societies fracture into warring tribes, we demonise those who oppose us. We tear down our statues, forgetting that what begins with the destruction of statues, often leads to the killing of people. In A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues, Dr. […]
Read MoreAuthor to Author with Humphrey: Dr Harlan Ullman
Harlan has worked with American Secretaries of State and Defense, members of Congress, NATO commanders and governments in Asia and Europe. He created the famous phrase ‘Shock and Awe’ that many of us have heard surrounding America’s foreign wars. His new book ‘The Fifth Horseman and the New MAD’ is out on Thursday and Harlan […]
Read MorePurpose, Passion, Grit talk with Humphrey Hawksley and Ulrich Larsen
North Korea is the world’s most closed country, a vicious dynastic dictatorship with prison camps and nuclear weapons. Our guest on Purpose Passion and Grit 12.00pm March 22nd is Ulrich Larsen, a former chef who for more than a decade lived a very strange double life. At home, he was an ordinary family man while […]
Read MoreThe Democracy Forum live webinar
The Democracy Forum and TDF President Lord Bruce invite you to a live webinar, ‘The Indo-Pacific & the India factor in US-China rivalry: A discussion’ on Wednesday March 23, 2022 at 2-4pm UK time. Moderator Humphrey Hawksley, Author & former BBC Asia correspondent Panellists Dr Kate Sullivan de Estrada, Associate Professor in the International Relations […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Arthur I. Miller
Meet the artists who compose music that sounds more like Bach than Bach; whose painting techniques surpass those of Vincent Van Gogh in Starry Night, who write screenplays, crack jokes and come up with mad, out of the box ideas. And then meet a human being, Arthur I Miller, whose latest book The Artist in […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Simon Winchester
His account of how a former school headmaster and a clinically insane murderer collaborated on creating the Oxford English dictionary in The Professor and the Madman became an international bestseller and Hollywood box-office film. In 1982, while reporting for The Sunday Times, Simon was actually on the Falkland Islands when Argentina invaded. He wrote about […]
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