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 […]
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Inside 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 […]
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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. […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Vince Cable
Sir Vince Cable is the politician people trust. He is former leader of the Liberal Democrats and former Secretary for Business, nimble with footwork as a star of Strictly Come Dancing and a highly-acclaimed author with a range of titles that run from insights on the rise of China to a highly acclaimed political thriller. […]
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The Democracy Forum and TDF President Lord Bruce invite you to a live webinar, ‘Cold war or confrontation? Understanding China’s global ambitions’ on Wednesday November 24, 2021, 2-4pm UK time. Chair Humphrey Hawksley, Author & former BBC Asia correspondent Panellists Professor Steve Tsang, Director, SOAS China Institute, SOAS, University of London Didi Kirsten Tatlow, Senior […]
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