Justin Webb: Live in Conversation

Maitland/AMO, 3 Pancras Square, London
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This event ended on Tuesday 22nd of February 2022
Admission
£25
(ticket price includes a copy of The Gift of Radio & a welcome drink on arrival)
Location

Maitland/AMO, 3 Pancras Square, London

Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
King's Cross St. Pancras 0.15 miles

Join Justin Webb, the longest serving presenter of BBC Radio 4’s flagship news and current affairs programme ‘Today’, Radio 4. He will be live in conversation with Iain Martin, editor of Reaction to discuss his new memoir The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and other Train Wrecks.

Candid, unsparing and darkly funny, his memoir is a portrait of personal and national dysfunction. So was it the brutal experiences of his upbringing, or an innate ambition and drive that somehow survived them, that shaped the urbane and successful radio presenter we know and love now?

For the best part of four decades, Justin Webb has been a voice on the airwaves or a presence on our TV screens. He joined the BBC in 1984 as a trainee, and has reported from around the world, as a war correspondent in the Gulf and in Bosnia, on the break-up of the former Soviet Union and the first democratic elections in South Africa. He was Europe Correspondent when the Euro was introduced, and for eight years he was the chief correspondent in Washington DC. Among his awards is Political Journalist of the Year, which he won for his coverage of the Obama presidential campaign.

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