Past Programs
Journalism - 2008
Christina Lamb: writing reportage, writing stories Read Transcript
30/06/2008
We may think we know the difference between fact and embellishment, between objective reportage and storytelling, but do the two ever go hand in hand? One woman who thinks they should is British journalist Christina Lamb.
Christina Lamb was named Foreign Correspondent of the Year in the British Press Awards last year. She currently works for The Sunday Times in London, and has just released a new book, Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands, published by Harper Collins.
The book is part reportage, part memoir. It includes many of the important articles she's written over the last two decades and her personal reflections on the events that have shaped her extraordinary life and career.
Tim Parks: the problem with experts
23/01/2008
Now to our scribe in Italy. Author, essayist, critic and translator Tim Parks has lived outside Milan for about 25 years, which ought to qualify him as an expert observer of Italian culture and politics. But he recently discovered that, when the media say they want an expert, nuance and complexity is the last thing they expect. After all, they have stereotypes to maintain.
