Walk with David Hewson through the alleys and streets of Rome and Venice, savour the food, enjoy the languages around you and dip into the intrigue and conspiracies that make Italy tick. Meet the dogged, young Rome detective Nic Costa, step into Nazi Venice in 1943, and journey through the centuries with David, from Rome […]
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The Democracy Forum live webinar
The Democracy Forum and TDF President Lord Bruce invite you to a live webinar, ‘Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis: the way forward’ on Wednesday January 19, 2022 at 2-4pm UK time (6.30-8.30pm Afghanistan time). Moderator Humphrey Hawksley, Author & former BBC Asia correspondent Panellists Dr Bahar Jalali, Visiting Associate Professor of History, Loyola University Prof. Jean-Paul Faguet, […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Odd Harald Hauge
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). […]
Read MorePurpose, 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), […]
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