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FULL - World Press Freedom Day Debate: New Media is Killing Journalism
Fri 2nd May
In partnership with the UK National Commission for UNESCO and the Press Freedom Network.
Frontline Members only event – UNESCO guests and Press Freedom Network members by invitation.
With Andrew Keen (Author), Nazenin Ansari (Kayhan Publishing Iran/UK and FPA), Robin Lustig (BBC) and Kim Fletcher (journalist and author)
Moderated by William Horsley (Association of European Journalists)
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
NEW - Media Talk: The Real Africa
Tue 29th April
With Ferial Haffajee (Mail and Guardian, South Africa), Azubuike Ishiekwene (Punch Nigeria Limited), Brahima Ouedraogo (Radio Burkina). Moderated by Joel Kibazo – journalist and media consultant.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
NEW - Media Talk: Zimbabwe - Where Next?
Thu 24th April
With Patrick Smith (Africa Confidential), Tererai Karimakweda (SW Radio Africa), Laura Lynch (CBC) and moderated by George Alagiah (BBC). Catherine Phelp (The Times) via live video link to Zimbabwe.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
In the picture with Judah Passow - Shattered Dreams: Israel and the Palestinians
Wed 23rd April
In conversation with Jon Levy (Editor Foto8)
Followed by Q&A
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London, W2 1QJ
Insight with Sir Menzies Campbell - War, Politics and the Lib Dems
Tue 22nd April
Moderated by Reeta Chakrabarti (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Frontline Confidential with Andrew Gilligan
Thu 17th April
Moderated by Gavin MacFadyen (CIJ).
The event is organised in association with the Centre for Investigative Journalism.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
NEW - Media Talk: Boycotting China
Wed 16th April
With Shirong Chen (BBC World Service), Tom Porteous (Human Rights Watch), Simon Tisdall (The Guardian) and Liu Weimin (Chinese Embassy).
Moderated by Isabel Hilton (Chinadialogue.net).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
In the picture with Seamus Murphy: A Darkness Visible - Afghanistan - FULLY BOOKED
Thu 10th April
In conversation with Jocelyn Bain-Hogg
Followed by Q&A
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London, W2 1QJ
Insight with Edward Lucas - Russia and the West - the New Cold War? - FULLY BOOKED
Tue 8th April
Moderated by Olexiy Solohubenko (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Insight with Robert Fisk - Covering wars, insurgencies and massacres - FULLY BOOKED
Fri 4th April
Moderated by Jeremy Bowen (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Insight with Patrick Cockburn - the real Muqtada Al-Sadr - FULLY BOOKED
Tue 1st April
Moderated by Caroline Hawley (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Media Talk: Global Economic Slowdown and Foreign Policy
Wed 26th March
With Vincent Cable MP, Chris Giles (Financial Times) and Steven Bell (Chief economist, GLC). Moderated by Andrew Walker (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
What implications might the credit crunch and a global economic slowdown have on the current political environment?Media Talk: Independent Kosova - FULLY BOOKED
Tue 25th March
With Daut Dauti (former spokesman for the Kosova government), Tim Judah (journalist and author), Misha Glenny (journalist and author), Dr Nebojsa Vladisavljevic (LSE).
Moderated by Allan Little (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Following its declaration of independence in February, Kosovo is now facing a long uphill struggle to take its place among the estabished European nations.Insight with Tyler Brule - Global Affairs in Style - FULLY BOOKED
Wed 19th March
Moderated by John Owen (Chairman of the Frontline Club Charitable Trust and City University).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Style and media guru and creator of the ground-breaking magazines Wallpaper* and Monocle, Tyler Brule talks to John Owen about the media, consumerism, style and world politics.Media Talk: Iraq - Five years of Occupation
Tue 18th March
With John Fisher Burns (New York Times) and Alastair Macdonald (Reuters).
Moderated by Nik Gowing (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Five years after the invasion and the beginning of the occupation, has the situation in Iraq changed for the better or worse. Who are the winners and losers of the Iraq war?Media Talk: US Elections - Racing for Presidency - FULLY BOOKED
Thu 13th March
With Gavin Hewitt (BBC), Willian Schneider (CNN- via phone link) and Harriet Sherwood (The Guardian). Moderated by Jon Snow (Channel 4 News).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
As the race for the Democratic and Republican nominations reach the crunch point, we discuss pre-elections politics and what each party brings to the table.Frontline Confidential with Paul Radu - Organised Crime from Eastern Europe Moves West
Wed 12th March
In association with the Centre for Investigative Journalism.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Paul Radu of the Romanian Centre of Investigative Journalists talks about human trafficking from the Balkans and Russian organised crime infiltrating the football business in Eastern Europe.Insight with Sir Hilary Synnott - Britain's Man in Southern Iraq, Pakistan and India
Tue 11th March
Moderated by Mark Urban (BBC Diplomatic Editor).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
British diplomat and former regional coordinator for the Coalition Provisional Authority in southern Iraq, Sir Hilary Synnott gives an insider's account of the high politics of occupation. Sir Hilary is also the author of The Causes and Consequences of South Asia’s Nuclear Tests.In the picture with Sean Smith - Iraq in focus: A year on from the 'surge'
Fri 29th February
In conversation with Julian Borger (Diplomatic Editor, The Guardian)
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London, W2 1QJ
Sean Smith’s work in Iraq has won praise for exposing the pain and suffering of both ordinary Iraqis and US troops, tasked with restoring peace in country falling apart. Here he will present examples of his work and discuss with the Guardian’s diplomatic editor, Julian Borger, the story behind the images as well as where Iraq stands a year on from the controversial 'surge' of US troops.The News Carers: Are aid groups doing too much real newsgathering? - NEW YORK -- FULLY BOOKED
Thu 28th February
With John Owen (Frontline Club), Marcus Bleasdale (VII), Steve Cassidy (UNICEF), Kimberly Dozier (CBS), Stephen Mayes (World Press Photo) and Kris Torgeson (MSF).
Location: VII Photo Agency, 28 Jay Street (at the corner of Jay & Plymouth), DUMBO Brooklyn, NY 11201
Media Talk: Zimbabwe elections - Will Mugabe win again?
Thu 28th February
With Christina Lamb (The Sunday Times), Gugulethu Moyo (Programme Lawyer, International Bar Association), Tererai Karimakweda (SW Radio Africa). Moderated by Adam Roberts (The Economist).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
With Zimbabwean finance minister Simba Makoni challenging Robert Mugabe in the March elections, the country looks set for another political stand-off. Frontline Confidential with Nick Davies - Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media - FULLY BOOKED
Wed 27th February
With David Leigh (The Guardian).
Moderated by Gavin MacFadyen (Centre for Investigative Journalism).
In association with the Centre for Investigative Journalism.
FULLY BOOKED.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Award-winning investigative journalist Nick Davies breaks Fleet Street’s unwritten rule and investigates his own colleagues, discovering that he works in “a corrupt profession”.Media Talk - Russia after the Elections: the Power Behind the Throne
Wed 20th February
With Prof Robert Service (Oxford University), Alan Philps (former foreign editor and Russia correspondent for the Daily Telegraph), Oksana Antonenko (IISS) and David Hearst (The Guardian). Moderated by Alan Cowell (New York Times).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
With Vladimir Putin due to leave his post after the Russian presidential elections in May, our panel discusses how Russia will be run and who will run it.Insight with Matthew Green - In Search for Africa's Most Wanted War Criminal - FULLY BOOKED
Thu 14th February
Moderated by Tim Allen (LSE).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
West Africa Correspondent for the Financial Times and former East Africa reporter for Reuters, Matthew Green talks about General Joseph Kony and unveils hidden and forgotten layers of the bloody conflict that plagues Northern Uganda.This event is now FULLY BOOKED.
Insight with Jonathan Steele - Why they lost Iraq
Thu 7th February
Moderated by Elizabeth Palmer (CBS).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Senior foreign correspondent and in-house columnist on international affairs for the Guardian, Jonathan Steele argues that the Coalition was not defeated in Iraq because of inadequate planning but for much more deep-rooted reasons.Insight with Jeremy Paxman - the Art of Asking the Right Question - FULLY BOOKED
Tue 5th February
Moderated by Prof. Roy Greenslade (City University).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Award winning journalist and TV presenter gives his opinions on the media, current affairs, politics and politicians. FULLY BOOKED.
Media Talk: Pakistan on the Brink - FULLY BOOKED
Thu 31st January
With Owen Bennett-Jones (BBC), Victoria Schofield (writer and journalist), Aamir Ghauri (Geo TV) and M. Ziauddin (Dawn).
Moderated by Mishal Husain (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
With the murder of Benazir Bhutto and national elections due in February, the future of Pakistan is once again in the spotlight.FULLY BOOKED.
Insight with Christina Lamb - the Flak Jacket in my Wardrobe - covering stories from Pakistan to Zimbabwe - FULLY BOOKED
Tue 29th January
Moderated by Kylie Morris (More 4 News).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Award-winning journalist Christina Lamb talks about how a friendship with Benazir Bhutto led to 20 years spent covering Afghanistan, Pakistan and Zimbabwe reporting on wars, politics, famines and dictators. FULLY BOOKED.In the picture with Philip Jones Griffiths - Vietnam Trilogy - FULLY BOOKED
Thu 24th January
Followed by Q&A
Please note due to overwhelming popularity there will be no admission on the door for this event
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London, W2 1JG
Philip Jones Griffiths, widely considered to be one of the greatest war photographers of the twentieth century presents his Vietnam Trilogy; photographs from the books that became classics of photojournalism and had a major influence on American perceptions of the war.Insight with David Horovitz, editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post- FULLY BOOKED
Wed 23rd January
Moderated by Martin Woollacott.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
David Horovitz, editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post, talks about the Middle East and the Israeli media.NEW - Media Talk - Kenya in Turmoil
Tue 22nd January
With Solomon Mugera (BBC Swahili Service), Dr Muzong Kodi (Chatham House), David Blair (The Daily Telegraph). Moderated by Richard Dowden (Royal African Society).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Following Kenya’s disputed elections and the post-election unrest our panel discusses whether democracy can win in this divided country.Insight with James Appathurai - NATO in Afghanistan and beyond
Thu 17th January
Moderated by Michael Evans (The Times).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
NATO's principal spokesman and member of the alliance's senior policy board talks about the organisation's role in international affairs - especially Afghanistan, Kosovo and relations with Russia.Insight with Kasra Naji - Who is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? - FULLY BOOKED
Wed 16th January
Moderated by Jon Snow (Channel 4 News).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Internationally acclaimed journalist Kasra Naji, a native Persian speaker, has spent years in Iran interviewing friends, family and colleagues of President Ahmadinejad and now tells the real story of his rise to power.FULLY BOOKED.
Media Talk: Uzbekistan - repression and lack of democracy in Central Asia- FULLY BOOKED
Wed 9th January
With Craig Murray (former British Ambassador in Uzbekistan), Natalia Antelava (BBC Central Asia correspondent), Shahida Tulaganova (Uzbek journalist) and Michael Andersen (Journalist and filmmaker). Moderated by James Nixey (Chatham House).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Following the murder of outspoken Uzbek journalist Alisher Saipov, we look at this Central Asian country which has won notoriety for its human rights abuses and repression.FULLY BOOKED.
An evening with Sir David Frost: from Nixon to Al Jazeera - FULLY BOOKED
Tue 4th December
Introduction by John Owen.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Legendary TV presenter, interviewer, producer and author, Sir David Frost talks about his remarkable career in television.Insight with Sir Jeremy Greenstock - Britain's position in the world
Wed 28th November
Moderated by Yahia Said (LSE).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
London's former ambassador to the UN and the first British envoy to Iraq talks about British foreign policy in the new world order.Media Talk: Burma's bloody crackdown and uncertain future
Thu 22nd November
With Thuyein Kyaw-Zaw (BBC Burmese Service), Jonathan Miller (Channel 4 News), Zoya Phan (Burma Campaign UK) and Justin Wintle (author).
Moderated by Robert Gifford (NPR).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
This year’s protests in Burma were witnessed by millions around the world thanks to internet and mobile phone technology, but was it enough to change the regime?Insight with Suzanne Goldenberg - Is America ready for Hillary? - FULLY BOOKED
Thu 15th November
Moderated by Jonathan Rugman (Channel 4 News).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Award-winning Guardian journalist Suzanne Goldenberg talks about the possibility of the Americans electing their first-ever woman president.FULLY BOOKED
Media Talk: Is it time for an independent Kurdistan?
Tue 13th November
With Peter Galbraith (via phone link), Kamran Karadaghi (former Chief of Staff to the Iraqi President), Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman (Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government's High Representative to the UK), David McDowall (author) and Adel Darwish (journalist and commentator, The Middle East Magazine).
Moderated by Michael Howard (The Guardian).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
With Iraqi Kurds now almost totally independent of Baghdad, is the time right for talk of a new pan-Kurdish state or are regional autonomies the only way forward?Insight with James Naughtie - the Music of War and Revolution
Thu 8th November
Moderated by James Robbins (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
The inimitable voice of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, James Naughtie talks about some of the most iconic war and revolutionary musical pieces by Bethoven, Verdi, Elgar, Shostakovich and Olivier Messiaen.Insight with the editor of The Times Robert Thomson
Wed 7th November
Moderated by Prof Roy Greenslade (City University).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Editor of the Times and favourite to become the new editor of the Wall Street Journal, Robert Thomson, talks to Roy Greenslade about the media, news and journalism. Insight with Alan Johnston: "being buried alive" - surviving a kidnapping - FULLY BOOKED
Fri 2nd November
Moderated by John Owen (Frontline Forum Chairman).
FULLY BOOKED.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston, who spent 114 days in captivity and was released after an unprecedented international media campaign, talks to John Owen about his ordeal and life after the kidnapping.In the picture with Heathcliff O'Malley - The World Since 9/11 from Iraq and Afghanistan
Thu 25th October
In conversation with Peter Beaumont (Foreign Affairs Editor for The Observer)
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London, W2 1QJ
Heathcliff O’Malley recently returned from an embed with coalition forces on the front line of the worsening Iraq war where he shot some of the most defining photographs to come out of the region in recent months. He was one of the few photographers in New York at the time of the attacks on the World Trade Centre - the pictures he took that day were seen around the globe as the world tried to take in the magnitude of the attack. Since then he has followed the consequences ever since throughout Afghanistan and Iraq.Insight with Martin Bell - On Politics, Spin, Wars and Journalism
Fri 19th October
Moderated by Raymond Snoddy (NewsWatch and The Independent).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Martin Bell, maverick politician and one of the most distinguished foreign affairs reporters of his generation, talks about New Labour, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and spin.Media Talk: Russia - Cold War II?
Thu 18th October
With Mary Dejevsky (The Independent), Andrew Jack (The Financial Times), Darya Pushkova (Russia Today Channel) and Prof Robert Service (Oxford University). Moderated by Nick Paton Walsh (Channel 4 News).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
A year after Anna Politkovskaya’s murder and the beginning of the Litvinenko affair and with just five months to go before presidential elections, Russia’s relations with Britain and other western countries are increasingly strained.Insight with John Simpson - The World According to Simpson - FULLY BOOKED.
Wed 17th October
Moderated by John Kampfner (the New Statesman).
FULLY BOOKED.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Veteran war correspondent John Simpson talks to John Kampfner about the changes the world has gone through during his life and long career.Media Talk - Do journalists need a special safety convention?
Tue 16th October
With Geoffrey Robertson QC, Knut Doerman (ICRC), Aidan White (IFJ). Others – TBC. Moderated by Prof Stewart Purvis (City University).
The event is organised in association with INSI.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
As an ever greater number of journalists are killed and kidnapped, we discuss whether there is a need for a special international convention to protect journalists working in war and conflict zones.Feliks Topolski Centenary Celebrations - the Changing Ways of Depicting Conflict
Fri 12th October
With John Keane (official British artist during the Gulf War), Vaughan Smith (Frontline television - TBC), Roger Tolson (Imperial War Museum), Roger Tooth (The Guardian).
Moderated by Charles Glass.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
How has modern technology changed our perception of wars and conflict? Are war artists and chronicles now a thing of the past? The event is organised as part of the Feliks Topolski centenary celebrations and to launch an exhibition of his wartime art at the Frontline Club.
Media Talk: Sri Lanka - the Forgotten War?
Thu 11th October
With Prof Sumantra Bose (LSE), Sunanda Deshapriya (Free Media Movement in Sri Lanka), Nadaraja Kuruparan (ABC Radio Network, Sri Lanka) and Juliana Ruhfus (Al Jazeera International).
Moderated by George Arney (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
With more than 70,000 dead after a conflict between Tamil Tiger rebels and the Sri Lankan government that has lasted for nearly three decades, peace seems further away than ever. How does the media cover this ongoing conflict?Insight with Lt Col Stuart Tootal and Patrick Bishop: Can the British win in Afghanistan?
Wed 3rd October
Moderated by Patrick Bishop (author of 3PARA).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Commander of 3 Para Battle Group in Afghanistan, Lt Col Tootal, talks about the challenges the Group faced in Helmand: the fighting and the casualties, the logistics and the ongoing fight to win ‘hearts and minds'.Frontline Confidential: Selling nuclear weapons to rogue states and terrorists
Tue 25th September
With Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark.
The event is organised in association with the Centre for Investigative Journalism.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Investigative journalists Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark reveal a vast nuclear black market sanctioned by Pakistan's military elite, financed by aid money from the US, Saudi Arabia and Libya and receiving assistance from China.Media Talk: Pakistan Votes
Thu 20th September
With Aamir Ghauri (GEO TV), Professor Anatol Lieven (King's College London), Moeed Pirzada (writer and broadcaster) and Farzana Shaikh (Chatham House).
Moderated by David Loyn (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Elections in Pakistan are due in October and Pervez Musharraf’s position is looking fragile, but he is not ready to give in.Frontline Confidential - Beslan: Has the truth been told?
Wed 19th September
With Timothy Phillips. Moderated by David Hearst (the Guardian).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Writer Timothy Phillips talks about Beslan three years after the terrible tragedy there. He looks at whether the small tight-knit community been able to overcome the shock of what happened and questions whether we will ever find out the truth about the events of September 2004.Insight with John Fisher Burns: The longest serving western journalist in Iraq
Fri 14th September
Moderated by Paul Wood (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and the longest serving western journalist in Iraq, John Fisher Burns talks about life in Iraq before and during the war and during the ongoing occupation.Media Talk. Iraq Surge: 'Real Gains' or Fiasco?
Thu 13th September
With HE Dr Salah Al-Shaikhly (Iraqi Ambassador), Prof Kathleen Burk (UCL), Ahmed Rikaby (founder of radio Dijla in Baghdad), Peter Galbraith (Senior diplomatic fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation) - via phone link and Jacques Reland (London Metropilitan University).
Moderated by Caroline Wyatt (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place London W2 1QJ
With the death toll rising and sectarian violence apparently worsening in Iraq, pressure is building for American and British troops to withdraw sooner rather than later even general Petraeus agrees, but for a different reason.Media Talk: Afghanistan - Turning the Tide?
Fri 7th September
With Major General Patrick Cordingley, Anthony Loyd (The Times), Najibullah Razaq and Dr Antonio Giustozzi (LSE).
Moderated by Kirsty Lang (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
As Afghanistan overtakes Iraq as the Foreign Office’s number one priority in the war on terror, we ask whether the current British policy in this conflict-torn country is working.Insight with Andrew Keen: Is the internet killing journalism?
Thu 6th September
Moderated by Richard Sambrook (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Silicon Valley veteran Andrew Keen explains why he believes the internet promotes plagiarism and piracy and is killing professional journalism and culture.In the picture with John D McHugh: On the frontline in Afghanistan
Thu 30th August
Moderated by Alexander Gardiner
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London, W2 1QJ
John D McHugh set off in April 2007 for a nine month embed on the frontlines in Afghanistan. 5 weeks later he was caught in a major ambush and captured some rare combat photographs before being shot and seriously injured.Media Talk: Has western coverage of the China story become stale and cliched?
Thu 23rd August
With Rob Gifford (NPR), Duncan Hewitt (former BBC, Newsweek), Catherine Sampson (formerly The Times) and Lifen Zhang (FTChinese.com). Moderated by Carrie Gracie (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
While the western media focuses on the well-worn stories of economic growth and human rights abuses, China is undergoing a huge economic and social transformation.Insight with Clive Stafford-Smith: Defending terror suspects of Guantanamo - FULLY BOOKED
Wed 15th August
Moderated by Julian Borger (The Guardian).
FULLY BOOKED.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
British civil rights lawyer talks about the fine democratic line between defending civilians from terrorist attacks and violating the rights of terror suspects, Guantanamo bay and capital penalty.Insight with Henry Hemming: The Middle East as Art Project
Tue 14th August
Moderated by Richard Beeston (The Times).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
British artist Henry Hemming travels to the Middle East in search of artistic inspiration and finds more than a conflict zone.Insight with Edna Fernandes: Religious fundamentalism in India
Thu 2nd August
Moderated by Caspar Melville (The New Humanist).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Journalist and writer Edna Fernandes talks to Caspar Melville about why India, home of most of the world's major religions, also hosts almost every type of religious fanaticism.Insight with Marina Litvinenko and Alex Goldfarb: Alexander and the Russian Secret Service - FULLY BOOKED
Fri 27th July
Moderated by Nick Fielding.
FULLY BOOKED.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
The widow of the FSB defector Alexander Litvinenko and his best friend talk about the realities of the Russian secret service and share their thoughts on who is responsible for his poisoning.Media Talk: Is the international community worsening the situation in Palestine?
Wed 25th July
With Hussein Agha (co-author of A Framework for a Palestinian National Security Doctrine),Jonathan Freedland (the Guardian), Azzam Tamimi (author of Hamas: Unwritten Chapters) and Samir El-Youssef (Contributor to the New Statesman, the Guardian and the Jewish Chronicle).
Moderated by Tim Llewellyn (author and broadcaster).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London, W2 1QJ
As the conflict between Hamas and Fatah divides Palestine further we look at whether the international community has helped or hindered solutions to the crisis.Media Talk: Gordon's Foreign Policy
Tue 24th July
With Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP (Conservative), General Mike Jackson, Gisela Stuart MP (Labour) and Andrew Miller (The Economist).
Moderated by David Loyn (BBC).
Location: 13, Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
With thousands of troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, growing tensions with a resurgent Russia and the threat of terrorism at home and abroad, pressure is mounting on Gordon Brown to define Britain's new foreign policy.NEW! Insight with Hussein Aideed: Somalia at the Crossroads
Fri 20th July
Moderated by Juliana Rufus (Al Jazeera).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Once an enthusiastic backer of the Ethiopian presence in Somalia and American attacks on the Islamic Courts fighters, Somali Deputy Prime Minister talks to Juliana Rufus about the reasons he split from the current government to form an alliance with the Islamic Courts in Eritrea.Insight with Hadani Ditmars - Being a Woman in Iraq
Tue 17th July
Moderated by Fionnuala Sweeney.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London, W2 1QJ
Hadani Ditmars, Canadian journalist who has been writing from Iraq since 1997, talks to Fionnuala Sweeney about women in Iraq and how their lives have changed, drawing on her experiences described in her acclaimed book Dancing in the No-Fly Zone.Insight with Benazir Bhutto: Pakistan on the Brink
Fri 13th July
Moderated by George Arney (BBC World Service).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Former prime minister of Pakistan and head of the Pakistan People's Party talks about the future of her country - one of the West's key allies in the "war on terror".Media Talk: RCTV off the air: What's the full story?
Fri 6th July
With Richard Gott (The Guardian), Jonathan Rugman (Channel 4 News), Peter Noorlander (Article 19), Carlos Lauria (CPJ, via phone link) and Yolanda Valery (BBC World Service). Moderated by Isabel Hilton (OpenDemocracy).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London, W2 !QJ
The Venezuelan government’s decision not to renew the broadcasting licence of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) is changing the face of Venezuelan media.Media Talk: A new government but is Nigeria ungovernable?
Tue 3rd July
With Richard Cockett (The Economist) and Raufu Mustapha (Oxford University).
Moderated by Kaye Whiteman.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
With the new president sworn in after rigged elections, Nigeria is still in pitiful state and the conflict in the oil-rich Niger delta is escalating so what lies in store for Africa's most populous nation?Frontline Confidential: Investigating White Slavery
Fri 29th June
In association with the Centre for Investigative Journalism.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Don Jordan and Mike Walsh talk about investigating the forgotten story of thousands of white Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain’s American Colonies.Insight with Mike Thomson: Conflict in Eastern Congo (DRC)
Wed 27th June
Moderated by Michela Wrong.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Mike Thomson from Radio 4’s Today programme describes the desperate situation and ongoing conflict in Eastern Congo despite the country's first democratic elections and promises for peace after four decades of war.Insight with Rajiv Chandrasekaran: Life in the bubble of the Green Zone of Baghdad
Wed 20th June
Moderated by Adrian Wells (Sky).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Winner of the BBC FOUR Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for 2007The Washington Post’s former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran talks about Baghdad’s Green Zone – a place so removed from the realities of Iraqi life that laws on protecting microchip designs take precedence over rebuilding this shattered country.
In the picture with Declan Walsh - Multimedia journalism and the ongoing unrest in Pakistan and Afghanistan
Tue 19th June
Moderated by James Brabazon (director/producer)
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London, W2 1QJ
Declan Walsh speaks about the pitfalls and merits of multimedia journalism,war in Afghanistan, and Pakistan’s ongoing civil unrest.
Media Talk: Is there a role for the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in today's media?
Fri 15th June
With Tony Benn, Jeremy Dear (NUJ) and David Aaronovitch (The Times). Moderated by Charlie Beckett (Polis).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
The NUJ is celebrating its centenary this year and is more active than ever - from helping journalists in need to stirring controversy by boycotting Israeli goods - but what is its role in new media age?Insight with Jeremy Bowen: Six days; forty years on; how many more decades of conflict?
Wed 13th June
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
The veteran BBC correspondent talks to Sheila MacVicar (CBS) about the war that reshaped the Middle East in just six days and how forty years on it is still defining the region.Insight with George Galloway: From the UK as little sister to the US in Iraq to Big Brother
Tue 12th June
Moderated by Jon Sopel (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Founder of the Respect Party, George Galloway, has had a chequered career in Britain’s public life - from being expelled from the Labour Party to appearing in the Celebrity Big Brother House - but what has he achieved as a politician?Insight with Boris Berezovsky: Putting one over Putin
Wed 6th June
Moderated by Allan Little (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Boris Berezovsky, the Russian dissident-businessman, discusses the plot to end Russia's President Vladimir Putin's rule.Media Talk: The holy and unholy alliances surrounding Somalia
Thu 31st May
With Richard Cockett (The Economist), Mohamud Gure (Somali Concern Group), Kim Sengupta (The Independent) and Robert Baer (former CIA case officer, by phone link). Moderated by Martin Plaut (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1 QJ
Whether Somalia is embroiled in a civil war or a proxy war will the bloodshed spill across the borders? And what are the forces that shape the conflict?In the picture with Peter Turnley: Moments of the Human Condition
Thu 24th May
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London, W2 1QJ
Peter Turnley, internationally-renowned photojournalist and consummate observer of major world events for the last two decades, will present his images and discuss his connection to visually communicating many of the most important international geo-political and human themes of our times.Insight with Jonathan Kaplan: Witnessing and Working in War
Tue 22nd May
With James Brabazon (producer/director)
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London, W2 1QJ
Jonathan Kaplan, war surgeon, writer and photographer in conversation withfilmmaker James Brabazon, whose war reportage earned him the Rory Peck
Award in 2003.
Insight with David Satterfield: Demystifying US policy in Iraq
Fri 18th May
Moderated by Jamie Rubin.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
David Satterfield, senior adviser to Condoleezza Rice, talks about the war in Iraq and US foreign policy.Insight with Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP: Is British Foreign Policy under Tony Blair Failing?
Wed 16th May
Moderated by Paul Wood (BBC).
Location: 13, Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Former Conservative Defence and Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP talks about British foreign policy and the military under Tony Blair.Insight with Andrew Cockburn: Rumsfeld - the Man Behind the US Military Disaster
Fri 11th May
Moderated by Charles Glass.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Andrew Cockburn, writer and lecturer on defence and national affairs, tells how Donald Rumsfeld’s ruthless approach led the US into disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and why he was eventually removed from the position of Secretary of Defence.Insight with Sir Michael 'Macho Jacko' Jackson: War and Peace
Thu 10th May
Moderated by Mark Urban (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Online booking only.
The legendary army general talks to Mark Urban about the British army, the war in Iraq and his military past.Media Talk marking World Press Freedom Day: Blogging - Self-exposure or Self-expression?
Thu 3rd May
With Ben Hammersley (Former multimedia correspondent for the Guardian and photojournalist), Kevin Marsh (Editor of the BBC College of Journalism) Ethan Zuckermann (Co-founder of Global Voices, via phone link) and Alaa Abd El-Fattah (Egyptian blogger, via phone link). Moderated by Richard Gizbert (The Listening Post, Al-Jazeera English).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London, W2 1QJ
Political bloggers may share the media landscape with journalists but they don't necessarily inhabit the same space - they live in an unregulated twilight zone where anything goes.Media Talk: Uncovering the Africa unreported by the western media
Wed 2nd May
With Sophie Ly Sow (journalist, Senegal), Arlindo Lopes (Southern African Broadcasting Association), Azubuike Ishiekwene (Punch Nigeria Ltd), Lizeka Mda (City Press, South Africa). Moderated by Jeff Koinange (CNN).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Leading African journalists and media gurus discuss big African stories the West does not often hear about.In the picture with Clancy Chassay - Is Hizbollah getting ready to take on Israel again?
Thu 26th April
Moderated by Richard Beeston (the Times)
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London, W2 1QJ
Clancy Chassay (multimedia journalist) discusses his coverage of the war between Hizbollah and Israel, the events that led to the present political standoff and the build up to more conflict.NEW: Media Talk: Are too many media workers dying to get the story?
Wed 25th April
With Jon Williams (BBC), Najibullah Razaq (journalist and Afghanistan analyst) and Rob Mahoney (CPJ), Kim Sengupta (The Independent). Moderated by John Owen.
All proceeds from this event will go to support the family of Afghani journalist Ajmal Naskhbandi.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Each day fears grow for the safety of the BBC's Alan Johnston, kidnapped in Gaza more than five weeks ago. Frontline vigorously applauds efforts to release him and is concerned about the safety of local journalists, staff and freelances.Foreign Editors Roundtable: The Truth About Foreign News
Thu 19th April
With Con Couglin (The Daily Telegraph), Leonard Doyle (The Independent) and Harriet Sherwood (The Guardian). Moderated by John Owen (Chairman of the Frontline Forum).
Location: 13, Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Meet the UK's leading newspaper foreign editors as they discuss breaking stories, the problems of reporting from war zones and the value of foreign news.Media Talk: Is Iran building a nuclear bomb?
Wed 11th April
With Frank Barnaby (Oxford Research Group), Mark Fitzpatrick (IISS), Abbas Edalat (Imperial College London) and Majid Tafreshi (historian and journalist). Moderated by Sheila MacVicar (CBS).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Iran claims its nuclear programme is peaceful. But many countries, led by Israel and the US, fear the Islamic state is aiming for a nuclear bomb.Insight with Tony Wood and Tom de Waal: Independence for Chechnya?
Tue 10th April
Moderated by Tom Fenton.
Location: 13, Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Tony Wood, Assistant Editor at the New Left Review, and Tom de Waal, IWPR Caucasus Editor, discuss whether independence from Russia is the best way forward for Chechnya.Insight with Hamida Ghafour and Ahmed Rashid: Are the Taliban winning?
Wed 4th April
Moderated by David Loyn
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Hamida Ghafour, reporter and a daughter of Afghan refugees and Ahmed Rashid, author of a highly-acclaimed book on the Taliban discuss if the Taliban set to regain control or are they being slowly but steadily marginalised?Media Talk: Zimbabwe in Meltdown
Tue 3rd April
With Wilf Mbanga (The Zimbabwean), Gugulethu Moyo (International Bar Association), Bill Saidi (Zimbabwean journalist, via phone link) and Daniel Howden (The Independent). Moderated by Allan Little.
Location: 13, Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
With Zimbabwe spiralling out of control, can Mugabe be ousted, who can rebuild a shattered nation and why are Zimbabwe's neighbours doing so little?Insight with David Pratt: Inside the Intifada
Wed 28th March
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Award-winning foreign correspondent and filmmaker, David Pratt, talks to Charles Glass about the origins of the Intifada, the key players in the Palestinian resistance and issues that continue to fuel the anger.In the picture with Tim Hetherington: The fault lines of West Africa
Tue 27th March
In conversation with photographer and director James Brabazon
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London, W2 1QJ
Photographer Tim Hetherington will show work from his recent trip to Liberia and discuss the fault lines of west Africa with colleague James Brabazon.Insight with Patrick Symmes: Castro, his friends and the Revolution Generation
Fri 23rd March
Moderated by Rosalind Bain
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Journalist and author Patrick Symmes, who wrote Chasing Che, the book that was later made into the film The Motorcycle Diaries, talks to Rosalind Bain about Fidel and Raul Castro and the lives of the people who gave birth to the Cuban RevolutionInsight with Anthony Loyd: Life of a War Journalist, as it is
Thu 22nd March
Moderated by Alan Little
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Award-winning war correspondent and writer Anthony Loyd talks to Allan Little about the thrilling and brutal reality of life as a war journalist, covering conflicts in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq.Insight with Sarah Chayes: Afghanistan after the War on Terror
Tue 20th March
Moderated by Christina Lamb
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Former US National Public Radio reporter Sarah Chayes talks to Christina Lamb about Afghanistan during the US-led invasion and what happened to the country after most of the troops and journalists left.Media Talk: French elections; a change in store?
Fri 16th March
With Caroline Wyatt (BBC), Jean-Pierre Langellier (Le Monde) and Jon Henley (The Guardian). Others – TBC. Moderated by Allan Little (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place. London W2 1QJ
Media Talk: Is nationalism on the rise in Turkey?
Tue 6th March
With Yavuz Baydar, Maureen Freely and Mehmet Ali Birand (via phone link). Moderated by Andrew Finkel.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Join us as we discuss nationalism and freedom of expression in Turkey in the wake of the assassination of the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant DinkInsight with Zahid Hussain: Pakistan's struggle with militant Islam
Thu 1st March
Moderated by Kirsty Lang from the BBC
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London 1QJ
The Pakistan correspondent for The Times, Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal, Zahid Hussain, talks to Kirsty Lang about America’s key ally in the global "war on terror". But whose side is Pakistan really on?Media Talk: Northern Ireland, what next?
Tue 27th February
With John Ware (Panorama), Henry McDonald (The Observer), John O'Dowd (Sinn Fein). Others TBC. Moderated by Peter Taylor (BBC).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
With Sinn Fein agreeing to support a united police force in Northern Ireland despite evidence of past complicity between Special Branch and loyalists paramilitaries, the Northern Ireland elections are due to go ahead in early March. Will they work this time?
Media Talk: Diplomacy vs the military approach in Iran
Fri 23rd February
With Sir Richard Dalton (former UK ambassador to Iran), Paul Hughes (Reuters) and Mike Gayle (US Embassy). Moderated by Bronwen Maddox (The Times).
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Join us as we discuss whether diplomacy still has a role to play in trying to break the Iranian nuclear deadlock or if a preventive military action is now the only effective option.Media Talk: Oil and Chinese Foreign Policy
Thu 22nd February
With Lindsey Hilsum (Channel 4), Isabel Hilton (Open Democracy), Brad Adams (Human Rights Watch) and Wen Guang Shao (Phoenix TV, Hong Kong). Others – TBC.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Join us as we discuss how, with China’s ever growing need for raw materials, the country’s foreign policy is changing.Frontline Confidential with John Willis: Cover-ups and Double Standards in the Asbestos Industry
Wed 21st February
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
One of Britain’s best-known documentary-makers, John Willis, talks about his investigation into asbestos–related cancer and how the programme he made changed attitudes towards this dangerous chemical.Insight with Nick Cohen: Are the left turning right?
Tue 20th February
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Nick Cohen, columnist for The Observer and New Statesman, argues that the liberal-left of the 20th century has ended up supporting the far right of the 21st.In the picture with Gary Knight: Darfur's war without end
Thu 15th February
In conversation with Rod Nordland, Newsweek's Chief Foreign Correspondent.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Gary Knight, co-founder of the VII photo agency, and Rod Nordland, Newsweek's Chief Foreign Correspondent, have just returned from Darfur. They speak about a country in meltdown and the incredible human suffering in the region.
Clare Short, the former cabinet minister who resigned over the war in Iraq, talks to Richard Beeston about Iraq, her time as Secretary for International Development and the role of Britain in the international arena.Insight with Mark Hollingsworth and Sandy Mitchell: Tortured in Saudi Arabia
Thu 1st February
Moderated by David Leigh.
Location: 13, Frontline Club, London W2 1QJ
Media Talk: Stability for Somalia?
Wed 31st January
With Abdul Rahman, Michela Wrong and Azeb Wolde-Giorghis. Moderated by Sam Kiley.
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
As government forces supported by the Ethiopian military and US battleships take charge of Somalia, join us as we discuss the future of the Horn of Africa.Insight with Jon Lee Anderson
Fri 19th January
One of America’s most respected reporters, Jon Lee Anderson of the New Yorker talks to Allan Little about the new left-wing movement in Latin America, the friendship between Fidel Castro and his protégé Hugo Chavez and reaction in the US to the perceived threat from the south.
Media Talk: Palestine's internal battle
Thu 18th January
With Ghada Karmi, David Pratt, Azzam Tamimi, Husam Zomlot. Moderated by Martin Woollacott.
A discussion on the implications of the bitter Palestinian power struggle between Hamas and Fatah for peace in the Middle East.
Insight with Paul French: North Korea, the Last Stalinist State
Wed 17th January
Paul French, Director of Access Asia, talks to The Economist’s Simon Long about life in North Korea, the most isolated country in the world, plagued by famine, industrial decline and repression.
Media Talk: The Baker Commission Report - the Wrong Medication for the Wrong Diagnosis?
Thu 11th January
With HE Dr Sami Khiyami (Syrian Ambassador), HE Dr Salah Al-Shaikhly (Iraqi Ambassador), Richard Beeston (The Times) and Patrick Cockburn (The Independent). Moderated by Jon Snow (Channel 4 News).
A discussion on US policy and the deteriorating situation in Iraq. With the publication of the Baker Commission's recommendations, will Washington now enter into a dialogue with Syria and Iran or seriosuly attempt an Arab-Israeli settlement?
Alexandra Boulat, co-founder of VII photo agency, speaks about working in war zones and her project on women in the Middle East.
Insight with Adam Roberts: the Wonga Coup
Thu 4th January
The Economist’s Adam Roberts talks to Richard Dowden about the Wonga Coup – an attempt by 64 alleged mercenaries, headed by former SAS officer Simon Mann, to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea.
Martin Wollacott, foreign affairs correspondent of the Guardian, talks to Charles Glass about the striking similarities between the war in Iraq and the Suez crisis which brought down a government.
Insight with Jeremy Bowen: War Stories
Fri 8th December
The veteran BBC correspondent talks to Allan Little about the changes that have taken place in the ways in which wars are reported from the Gulf War to Bosnia, Afghanistan to Rwanda, as well as the changes in Jeremy himself.
Insight with Daniel Howden: Zimbabwe in meltdown
Mon 27th November
The Independent’s deputy foreign editor, Daniel Howden, who has just returned from Zimbabwe, describes a country in meltdown. Moderated by George Alagiah.
Debate: Behind Enemy Lines but on Whose Side?
Mon 27th November
With Francesca Unsworth (Head of BBC Newsgathering), David Loyn via phone link (BBC Developing World correspondent), Bill Neely (International editor, ITV News) and Simon MacDowall (Director General Media and Communications MoD). Moderated by Stewart Purvis, former Chief Executive and Editor-in-Chief of ITN.
With David Loyn recently accused of being a traitor for talking to theTaliban and ITN banned by the MoD, we look at the governmental pressure and difficulties faced by journalists in gaining access and balancing the national interest with the public's right to know.