BBC Panorama

Friday 6th October 2017, 07:00 PM

Screening: Africa’s Billion Pound Migrant Trail

The documentary reveals the extraordinary scale of people smuggling across sub-saharan Africa – a multi billion pound industry described by some as a new “slave trade”.
As the EU desperately tries to cut the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean, reporter Benjamin Zand (Winner of RTS young journalist of the year) and producer Joshua Baker (The Battle For Mosul)  investigate how hundreds of millions of Euros of EU funding is being spent– and asks if EU efforts to tackle the smugglers could be leaving some migrants in an ever more dangerous limbo.


Thursday 16 April 2015, 7:15 PM

The Frontline Club Quiz – April 2015

The Club Quiz returns in April with special guest quizmaster, BBC Panorama reporter, John Sweeney.


February 11, 2015

To Embed or not to Embed? “Mutual Mistrust” Between NGOs and Journalists

By Antonia Roupell Not a seat was free on Tuesday 10 February at the Frontline Club, as a panel of experts convened for a discussion entitled Embedding with Aid Agencies: Editorial Integrity and Security Risks. The ideas of intention and interpretation dominated the evening, with the panel’s arguments and audience comments exposing a relationship of disconnect and simultaneous […]