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The Foreign Desk - In the Room: Secret talks with Nelson Mandela
16 September 2023
In part two of our ‘In the Room’ series, we speak to the key players involved in the secret talks that led to Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. Andrew Mueller speaks to Niël Barnard, the former head of South Africa’s…
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Meet the Writers - Gary Younge
26 March 2023
Gary Younge is an author, an academic and one of the UK’s most celebrated journalists. He joins Georgina Godwin to discuss his remarkable career in international reporting, his teenage years as a Trotskyist, reporting on…
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The Big Interview - Tony Leon
1 April 2022
The politician and former South African ambassador to Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay looks back on his career and shares the lessons he learned while working with Nelson Mandela.
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Meet the Writers - Zelda la Grange
16 March 2019
La Grange is a white South African who grew up supporting apartheid. But, a few years after Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, she was travelling the world at his side. She talks about Mandela the man.
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Meet the Writers - Peter Hain
21 July 2018
With an illustrious political career, Hain has been leader of the House of Commons, Europe minister and Africa minister, among other prominent positions in UK government. Originally from South Africa, he tells us about his…
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The Globalist - Wednesday 18 July
18 July 2018
We discuss Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban’s meeting with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and try to make sense of the continuing chaos in the UK government. Plus: the legacy of Nelson Mandela and Ethiopian Airlines’ trip…
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Sunday Brunch - Sunday Brunch: The one-handed musical trust
15 July 2018
We meet the man helping physically disabled people play musical instruments. Plus: Renaissance insults, Nelson Mandela’s favourite food and the weekend papers.
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Meet the Writers - Jeremy Thompson
23 December 2017
"Award-winning broadcaster Jeremy Thompson has reported on monumental events around the world, from Indira Ghandi’s assassination and the Tiananmen Square massacre to the release of Nelson Mandela, countless wars, elections…