Michael Jecks is a legend of historical fiction, and his best-selling Templar Series begins in 14th Century Devon where he now lives. A decade after the famous Knights Templars had been destroyed by Pope Clement V, a charred body is discovered in a burned-out cottage. The newly appointed bailiff believes it to be accidental. The […]
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Inside Story with Humphrey: Harlan K Ullman
Dr. Harlan Ullman is a strategic adviser to 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. Harlan is also Humphrey’s guest to explain the Inside Story of how […]
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Mao Tse-tung famously said China and the DPRK were “as close as lips and teeth.” Is that still the case? Always on the minds of DPRK officials is the goal of having more economic (and political?) independence from China. In economic vitality and growth, China has more in common with South Korea than with the […]
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Chair Humphrey Hawksley, Author & former BBC Asia correspondent PanellistsProf. Sergey Radchenko, Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at SAIS Europe Dr Marcin Kaczmarski, Lecturer in Security Studies (Central & Eastern European Studies), University of Glasgow Dr Natasha Kuhrt, Lecturer in International Peace & Security in the Department of War Studies, King’s College, London Dr Maria […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Linda Stratmann
Linda Stratmann is a historical mystery writer with a string of titles of true crime and fictional crime and her latest is set in 1872 Brighton and called the Cyanide Ghost with a feisty, intrepid investigator Mini Scarletti. The sixth in the series. Her non-fiction work reads like a chronicle of Inspector Morse meets Bergerac […]
Read MoreGoldster Book Club with Humphrey: Laurie Lee
As I Walked Out One Summer’s Morning by Laurie Lee is an auto-biographical account of youth with brilliant writing, captivating story-telling, observations on destitution in Britain in the 1930s and Spain heading toward war. Lee was 19-years-old – ‘still soft at the edges, but with a confident belief in good fortune…excited, vain glorious knowing I […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Jane Thynne
Jane Thynne, writing under the pen name C. J. Carey, is the author of Widowland which has been described as the most important feminist novel for decades. Her incredible imagination has created a Britain which forged a Grand Alliance with Nazi Germany and from there a grim but realistic Dystopian society in which, among many […]
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