Carole Walker is an award-winning BBC correspondent who left war zone reporting to raise her young family and became a political correspondent. From the BBC’s Westminster hub, she reported real-life intrigue, back-stabbing and conspiracies inside our government and parliament. Now a presenter for Times Radio, Carole has written Lobby Life: Inside Westminster’s Secret Society, which […]
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Goldster Book Club with Humphrey: The Hunt for Red October
Red October is a new Russian submarine, more sophisticated than anything in the American naval arsenal. But its captain wants to defect to the West, taking the submarine and all its secret technology with him. The tension develops into a double hunt as both the Russians and Americans hunt down the Red October. Clancy’s skill […]
Read MoreThe Democracy Forum live webinar
The Democracy Forum and TDF President Lord Bruce invite you to a live webinar, ‘China’s battle for influence in South & Southeast Asia: Can it succeed?’ on Wednesday February 16, 2022 at 2-4pm UK time. Moderator Humphrey Hawksley, Author & former BBC Asia correspondent Panellists Dr Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Associate Professor, University of Texas at […]
Read MorePurpose, Passion, Grit talk with Humphrey Hawksley and Terry Collingsworth
Terry Collingsworth has travelled to the most dangerous and conflict-ridden parts of the world. In West Africa, for example, children are forced into slavery to produce cocoa for the chocolate we all take for granted. Terry is challenging the confectionary giant Nestle to end this appalling practice of slavery in its supply chain. Working all hours […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Lena Sisco
With her many television appearances, Lena Sisco has earned the title of ‘celebrity lie detector’. Ask her how you can know when you’re being lied to and best to get the truth of someone who doesn’t want to tell – a teenager fallen in with a bad crowd, a two-faced boss, a sales person trying […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Geoffrey Payne
As a glider pilot and instructor, Geoff has found himself having to land in precarious places, interrupting Champagne lunch parties one flight and quietly grazing sheep in a remote field the next. As an urban planner, Geoff remains in high demand from institutions such as the World Bank grappling with challenges of designing decent housing […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Billy Kenber
In his explosive book Sick Money, The Truth About the Global Pharmaceutical Industry, Billy maintains that medicines have become nothing more than financial assets and that how drugs are priced and who has access to them is now dictated by shareholder value. He cites the example of an American hedge fund manager who hiked the […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Rory Cellan Jones
Have you ever worried about who is tracking your phone? Have you ever gone half-crazy trying to load or get rid of an app? Do any of us know how our smart phones really work? The mobile phone is the most extraordinary tool that has been invented in the last century and it has forced […]
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