Tuesday 28 January
Christina Lamb
1.00pm – 1.45pm
‘Years of Living Dangerously’
Covering conflicts across the globe for the past 35 years, Christina Lamb is recognised as one of the world’s top foreign correspondents and is currently the chief foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times. We’re honoured to welcome her to the Hampton Talk! series to discuss her years as a war reporter.
At the age of 22, dispatches from her time with the Afghan mujaheddin fighting the Soviet Union saw her named Young Journalist of the Year. She has since reported everywhere from Iraq to Ukraine, Israel to Zimbabwe and been awarded ‘Foreign Correspondent of the Year’ seven times, as well as Europe’s top war reporting prize the Prix Bayeux, and received prestigious Lifetime Achievement Awards from both the Society of Editors, and Women in Journalism as well as the Chesney Gold Medal for promoting the understanding of war, previously awarded to Henry Kissinger and Winston Churchill.
She has always particularly focused on what war does to women, and her book Our Bodies, Their Battlefields was described by leading historian Antony Beevor as ‘the most powerful book’ he had ever read and recently recommended by Queen Camilla in a speech. She has written ten books including co-authoring the international bestseller I Am Malala.
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