Frontline events
Live: Viva la Revolucion – Cuba at 50
You can now watch the event here. Tonight we’ll be discussing Cuba as it celebrates 50 years since the revolution and one year on since Raul Castro officially took power from his brother, Fidel. With a new US president about to take office, the change that has inevitably been creeping up on Cuba looks set […]
Live event: Mumbai – India’s 9/11
View in iTunes Tonight we discuss the recent attacks in Mumbai at the Frontline Club – Tue, 26 Dec at 7pm UK time. We’ll be broadcasting the event on the Frontline Club live channel which you can see above, What will these attacks mean for the ongoing “war on terror” and will India now be […]
LIVE event: World AIDS Day – Have we seen the worst?
[video:bliptv:1536730] We are marking World AIDS Day at the Frontline Club tonight with a discussion that asks the question: Have we seen the worst? Taking part will be Professor Robin Shattock, from St. George’s, Michael Bartos of UNAIDS, Thandi Haruperi who works with RestorEgo/EATG and Anton Kerr from the International HIV/AIDS Alliance. Chairing the discussion […]
LIVE event: Gideon Mendel – Looking AIDS in the face
Award winning photographer Gideon Mendel has documented the impact of HIV/Aids in Africa for more than 12 years. He’ll be discussing his work at the Frontline Club tonight. If you can’t make it in person, do please join us online at 7.30pm UK time tonight Wed 26th November on the Frontline Club live channel, Tonight, […]
LIVE event: Elizabeth Pisani on HIV/AIDS
You can now watch the event here. Elizabeth Pisani is at the Frontline Club tonight to talk about HIV/AIDS. Elizabeth is the author of The Wisdom of Whores and has spent ten years working as a scientist in the bloated AIDS industry. If you can’t make it to the club in person, please tune in […]
HIV/AIDS Season at the Frontline Club
We’re running an HIV/AIDS season at the Frontline Club starting tonight. Some interesting stuff coming up well worth a look and we start with a screening from Sorious Samura, 18 Nov – Screening: Living with AIDS with Sorious Samura 25 Nov – Elizabeth Pisani, author of Wisdom of Whores 26 Nov – Photojournalist Gideon Mendel […]
LIVE tonight: Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson, the author of The men who stare at goats among many other things, will be talking at the club tonight. As usual we’ll be broadcasting it live on the Frontline Club live channel. We start at 7pm UK time and you can read more about the event here. If you can’t make it […]
LIVE tonight: Predicting the crash
View in iTunes [video:bliptv:1448148] The credit crunch and the role of the media in reporting it are up for debate at the Frontline Club in London tonight in an ultra-topical Predicting the Crash debate. As usual we’ll be broadcasting the discussion on the Frontline Club live channel. We start at 7.30pm UK time tonight (6 […]
Live tonight: US election 2008 at the Frontline Club
We’re hosting a massive Monocle magazine sponsored event for the US election tonight with 300 folk invited. Everyone from army generals, ambassadors down to lowly hacks looking for a cool venue to spend the evening watching the results of one of the most important elections in our lifetime roll in. I’ll be trying to post […]
Live event: The Rise of the British Jihad
View in iTunes [video:bliptv:1421662] Tonight at the Frontline Club we will be discussing the rise of the British Jihad. We start at 7.30pm UK time and we’ll be streaming the event live on the Frontline Club channel so please come and join us online if you can’t make it to the club in person. MI5 […]
Live event: Russia Resurgent
You can now watch the event here. Russia is up for discussion at the Frontline Club in London tonight. Join us as we debate all these issues and more with Edward Lucas – author of The New Cold War and Alexei Pankin, a respected Russian journalist. Bridget Kendall, the BBC’s Defence and Diplomatic Correspondent, will […]
Live event: The Life and work of Gerda Taro
You can now watch the event here. Gerda Taro, the pioneering photojournalist famed for her dramatic photographs from the Spanish Civil War comes under the spotlight tonight Friday 17 October. Irme Schaber, writer and lecturer on the history of exile photography, photojournalism and print-media, will be talking about Taros’ work at the Frontline Club. As […]
Richard Bourne on Lula of Brazil
Last night author Richard Bourne discussed his latest book, Lula of Brazil, at the Frontline Club. You can watch the discussion here. President Lula of Brazil has a life that reads like a film script. The child of a dysfunctional family, his early life was one of poverty and chaos. In the 1970s, at a […]
LIVE event: David Loyn – 200 years of intervention
You can now watch the event here. Afghanistan is the subject for tonight’s discussion at the Frontline Club. As usual, if you can’t make it to the club in person, please come and join us on the Frontline Club live channel. We start at the slightly earlier time than usual at 7pm UK time, Thurs […]
RAW in WAR Anna Politkovskaya Awards 2008
[video:google:4851574881284968082&ei] Global Voices rounds up the blogosphere’s reaction to the second anniversary of the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. RAW in WAR Anna Politkovskaya Awards 2008 was a private event at the Frontline Club to commemorate Anna’s life and recognise those women working on the frontline around the world. Live Journal blogger markgrigorian has […]
LIVE tonight: Abdul Bari Atwan – From the Refugee Camp to the Front Page
[video:bliptv:1322728] Ian Black, Middle Eastern editor for The Guardian, will be in conversation with Abdul Bari Atwan tonight – Thu 2nd October, 7.30pm UK time/10.30am PST. As usual, we will be broadcasting the event on the Frontline Club live channel, so if you can’t make it in person do please come and join us online. […]
Live tonight: Countdown to November 4
[video:bliptv:1320615] We’ll be discussing the US Election at the Frontline Club tonight. The event is fully booked, but as usual you’ll be able to watch the event on the Frontline Club live channel if you can’t make it to the club in person. Taking part will be; James Naughtie, presenter of the BBC Radio programme […]
LIVE event: Liu Heung Shing on China
[video:bliptv:1301208] Pulitzer winning photographer Liu Heung Shing is a renowned Chinese photographer and a former foreign correspondent. In a career spanning over 20 years he covered China, India, Korea, the US and former USSR for all the major publications. China: Portrait of a Country is the new photography volume edited by Liu and brings together […]
LIVE event: All change in the Caucasus
View in iTunes You can watch the event here. The discussion at the Frontline Club tonight focusses on the Caucasus. As usual, we’ll be broadcasting the discussion on the Frontline Club live channel. We start at 7.30pm UK time, Wed 24 Sept. If you can’t make it in person, I hope you can join us […]
LIVE tonight: Philippe Sands – Torture Team
Philippe Sands, the author of Torture Team, will be in conversation with Olenka Frenkiel, a reporter, writer and documentary film-maker specialising in international investigations for BBC Television and Radio, at the Frontline Club tonight. If you can’t make it in person, please come and watch the discussion online on the Frontline Club Live Channel. We […]
Live tonight: Lord Malloch-Brown – An unlikely diplomat
[video:bliptv:1278256] Lord Malloch-Brown, UK Minister for Africa, Asia and the Middle East, will be in conversation with Richard Beeston, Foreign editor at The Times, at the Frontline Club tonight – Weds 17 Sept. It’s a sell out event, so if you haven’t got a ticket do please join us on the Frontline Club live channel […]
Live tonight: Is Somalia the new front in the war on terror?
View in iTunes You can now watch the event here. We’ll be discussing Somalia at the Frontline Club in London tonight. This time the question up for debate: Is Somalia the new front in the war on terror? We’ll be streaming the discussion live on the Frontline Club Live Channel and if you can’t make […]
Live tonight: Somaliland – Getting it right in Africa
You can now watch the event here. View in iTunes In May 1991 Somaliland declared independence from the rest of Somalia and over the past 17 years the government there has restored law and order to make it one of the must democratic and functioning societies in the Horn of Africa. Tonight’s debate at the […]
Live tonight: Photographer Jehad Nga on Somalia
[video:brightcove:1740029320] Jehad Nga will be talking at the Frontline Club tonight (Fri 5 September 7.30 pm UK time) about his photographs from Somalia. The talk is part of the Somalia season we are running at present. Click the video above to learn more about that. As usual, if you can’t make it tonight, please come […]
Live tonight: Understanding Somalia
[video:brightcove:1772128809] Martin Plaut will chair a discussion about Somalia at the Frontline Club tonight – Tue 2nd September, 7.30pm UK time. If you can’t make it in person, please tune in to the Frontline Club live channel to watch it online and take part in the dicussion. Taking part will be Awale Kullane, from the […]
Live tonight: Karadzic to the Hague
[video:brightcove:1704074804] Live discussion about Karadzic tonight Thu 31st July, 7.30pm UK time from the Frontline Club chaired by Ben Brown (BBC). Joining us will be Ed Vulliamy (Guardian and Observer), Kemal Pervanic (survivor of the Omarska concentration camp), Sir Geoffrey Nice (QC) and Gordana Igric by skype (BIRN). You can watch the event live on […]
Live: Five Zimbabwean writers on Zimbabwe
We ask a group some of Zimbabwe’s most well-known writers and journalists from widely divergent backgrounds to reflect on how their country got to this point. Join us live Tue 29 Jul, 7.30pm UK time on the Frontline Club livestream channel. The BBC’s George Alagiah will chair the discussion with; Lauren St John (author and […]
Live Stream: Guns for Hire – The Good, the Bad and the Unregulated
View in iTunes You can now watch the event here. The work of Private Military and Security Companies is up for debate tomorrow – Tue 22 July, 7.30pm UK time – at the Frontline Club in London. As usual we’ll be livestreaming the event on the Frontline Club Channel. Taking part will be Andy Bearpark […]
LIVE stream tonight: Iraq – A Fragile Sovereignty
You can now what the event here. The future of Iraq is up for debate tonight at the Frontline Club with a great panel. If you can’t make it to the club in Paddington, please join in online on the Frontline Club livestream channel where you can register to chat and join in the debate. […]
Forgotten film season at the Frontline Club
The Forgotten season starts at the Frontline Club from 4 August. The season consists of nine documentary films from some of the world’s forgotten stories, Ranging from female soldiers in Sri Lanka to a forgotten war in Nagorno Karabakh, a covered up massacre in Uzbekistan to conscientious objection in the US Army – these films […]
