Monday 12 August 10:00 - 11:00
Quality journalism is indispensable. The model of ‘breaking the news’ has changed enormously in recent years, but we’re here to sing the praises of essential stories, well told. In an age of diminishing local resources, global conglomerates, and...
Monday 12 August 12:30 - 13:30
Yuan Yang’s revelatory book, Private Revolutions, tells the stories of four ordinary women grappling with, and influencing, China’s new social order. How are new generations navigating censorship, expectations, and ambition when caught between an...
Monday 12 August 13:30 - 14:30
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With the General Election looming (or at least the possibility of its announcement), the political news cycle is in overdrive. James O’Brien, one of Britain’s leading broadcasters, is among the fiercest critics of contemporary Britain's management...
Monday 12 August 14:15 - 15:15
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Language matters, and when we talk about atrocities as if they are commonplace, we start normalising their happening. Award-winning investigative journalist Patricia Evangelista talks to Jen Stout about Some People Need Killing, discussing six years of...
Tuesday 13 August 10:00 - 11:00
Quality journalism is indispensable. The model of ‘breaking the news’ has changed enormously in recent years, but we’re here to sing the praises of essential stories, well told. In an age of diminishing local resources, global conglomerates, and...
Tuesday 13 August 14:00 - 15:00
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Veteran BBC correspondent Allan Little is joined by Jen Stout, a journalist, radio producer, and author. Together they compare notes of their experience of journalism across the generations.
Tuesday 13 August 18:00 - 19:00
In this event, two journalists who have rigorously investigated the corrupt and murderous tactics of those in power join forces. These fearless writers talk with Maddison Connaughton today about truth and democracy.
Wednesday 14 August 10:00 - 11:00
Quality journalism is indispensable. The model of ‘breaking the news’ has changed enormously in recent years, but we’re here to sing the praises of essential stories, well told. In an age of diminishing local resources, global conglomerates, and...
Wednesday 14 August 17:00 - 18:00
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Jeremy Bowen, International Editor BBC News, has been covering the Middle East since 1989. His deep understanding of the political, cultural, and religious differences between countries as diverse as Turkey, Syria, Israel, and Palestine shine from The...
Thursday 15 August 10:00 - 11:00
Quality journalism is indispensable. The model of ‘breaking the news’ has changed enormously in recent years, but we’re here to sing the praises of essential stories, well told. In an age of diminishing local resources, global conglomerates, and...