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 […]
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The 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 […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Carole Walker
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 […]
Read MoreGoldster 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 […]
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