Julie Summers is one of Britain’s foremost social historians. The author of fourteen works of non-fiction, including the best-selling book Jambusters, she was listed as one of only four women in the top fifty historians in Britain in 2015. Jambusters inspired the ITV drama series Home Fires, which ran for two seasons in 2015-16 and […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Tessa Keswick
In her enthralling memoir, The Colour of the Sky After Rain, Lady Tessa Keswick follows the footsteps of intrepid western explorers like Isabella Bird and Mildred Cable, whose early 20th Century accounts brought alive the scale and magnificence of China to a western audience. Drawing on her travels in China over thirty years Lady Keswick […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Parag Khanna
Dr Parag Khanna is a bestselling author of books that explain where our world is heading and why. Parag, who has been named by Esquire magazine as one of the 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century, will be talking to Humphrey about his latest book Move: The Forces Uprooting Us. It’s a thought-provoking […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Justin Marozzi
Acclaimed travel writer, adventurer and historian, Justin Marozzi, discusses a topic that has captured our headlines and politics for years. Yet, for many of us, it remains a mystery. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islam once lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and swathes of the Indian subcontinent, while […]
Read MoreGoldster Book Club with Humphrey: Debborah Moggach
With her mischievous and inventive imagination Deborah Moggach has already bought us The Best Marigold Hotel, Tulip Fever and a book shelf of others. Now in Black Dress, we met Pru who is on her own after her husband has walked out on her. She misses not so much him but the togetherness that a […]
Read MoreThe Democracy Forum live webinar
The Democracy Forum and TDF President Lord Bruce invite you to a live webinar, ‘Prospects for women’s/human rights under the Taliban’ on Wednesday October 13, 2021 1-3pm UK time (4.30-6.30pm Afghanistan time) Chair Humphrey Hawksley, Author & former BBC Asia correspondent Panellists Nargis Nehan, Founder of EQUALITY for Peace and Democracy & former Afghan Minister […]
Read MoreInside Story with Adam Williams: Humphrey Hawksley
We are delighted however that our presenter, Humphrey Hawksley, himself adventurer, traveller, lecturer, journalist and author, has agreed to step into the breech and tell us about his own remarkable life. Many of us know Humphrey from his many appearances over the last 40 years on BBC News, reporting from every continent on the planet. […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Anna Kennedy
When Anna and Sean Kennedy discovered that one of their sons had Asperger’s syndrome and that their other son was Autistic, they were truly devastated. But their family’s troubles were just the beginning. When searching to the right schools for their boys, they were turned down from twenty-six educational institutions which supposedly focused on special […]
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