As a glider pilot and instructor, Geoff has found himself having to land in precarious places, interrupting Champagne lunch parties one flight and quietly grazing sheep in a remote field the next. As an urban planner, Geoff remains in high demand from institutions such as the World Bank grappling with challenges of designing decent housing […]
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Inside Story with Humphrey: Billy Kenber
In his explosive book Sick Money, The Truth About the Global Pharmaceutical Industry, Billy maintains that medicines have become nothing more than financial assets and that how drugs are priced and who has access to them is now dictated by shareholder value. He cites the example of an American hedge fund manager who hiked the […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Rory Cellan Jones
Have you ever worried about who is tracking your phone? Have you ever gone half-crazy trying to load or get rid of an app? Do any of us know how our smart phones really work? The mobile phone is the most extraordinary tool that has been invented in the last century and it has forced […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: David Hewson
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 […]
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 […]
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