"If you end up with the story you started with you were not listening along the way"
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2002
Coverage of Moscow theatre hostage siege
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2003 Iraq war
Battle of Nasiriyah.
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2003
Iraq war
Exclusive Interview with Saddam regime torturer
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2003
Chechnya
Excusive Interview with female suicide bomber
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2016 Amazon
Ayahuasca – the toughest and most humbling experience of my life.
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2010
Chechnya
exclusive diary of Russian elite Spetsnaz officer – a chilling record of executions, torture and despair during 20 tours in Chechnya.
2008
Naples
meeting the drug dealers of the Camorra, the Naples mafia.
2009
Beslan
5 years after the school terrorist attack.
1998
Chechnya
exclusive interview with Shamil Basayev, Russia’s terrorist # 1 in Grozny – then the world’s kidnapping capital.
1997
First foreign reporter to gain access to a Russian TB prison colony.
1999
Reportage from inside a Russian orphanage where disabled children are left to die.
2014
Ukraine war
Embedded with pro Russian forces on the front line during a bloody battle.
2007
Italy
exclusive interview with the mafia’s most wanted woman.
2002
Chechnya
The dirty undercover war to wipe out Chechen rebels.
1998
First British journalist to gain access to Arzamas 16 – the secret city that was the powerhouse of the Soviet nuclear programme.
2007
Shadowing Andrei Lugovoi, who is wanted by Scotland Yard for the polonium poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko.
2010
“You’re making the same mistakes”
two Afghan war heroes, one Russian one British, meet to share their experiences.
1998
Karen Henderson was flung at only 18 into a hellish Russian prison. Free at last, in her first interview she tells how she survived.
1998
KGB spy: how I ran CIA’s super-mole.
Interview with the man who ran America’s two worst traitors.
2011
Alexei Navalny and the unlikely revolutionaries behind the anti-Putin mass demonstrations.
2008
War in Georgia front line reportage
1998
Vorkuta
Stalin’s forgotten children. Gulag victims left stranded.
2001
War in Afghanistan coverage
front line reportage.
2001
War in Afghanistan coverage
2004
Coverage of the aftermath of the Beslan school terrorist attack.
1994
Sicily
Once the Church in Sicily was silent about Mafia murders. Then a priest was killed for doing his job: speaking against evil. Reportage on Palermo’s anti-mafia priests.
2002
Afghanistan war coverage
front line reportage.
2000
Chechnya
The fall of Grozny, front line reportage.
1998
Interview with the Kremlin guard who shot Lavrenti Beria.
2002
Exclusive interview with British family taken hostage in the Moscow theatre siege.
First British media interview with Pussy Riot after their release from prison.
2003
Iraq
front line interview in Falluja with Islamic militants.
1997
interviewing Russian mafia Godfathers.
2004
Iraq
Reportage on the anarchy and violence of “post war” Iraq.
2009
The rise and fall of Russia’s oligarchs.
2016
Ten years after Alexander Litvinenko’s polonium murder, shadowing his alleged killer.
2003
Iraq
CIA recruits Iraq’s feared secret police.
1999
Chechnya
front line reportage.
2006
Chechnya
Interviewing victims of Ramzan Kadyrov’s torture chambers.
1999
Chechnya
Front line reportage.
2003
Iraq
Honor killings and interview with one of Saddam’s bodyguards.
2009
Dagestan
The secret dirty war.
2016
“The Americans squandered the trust we built”
Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev.
2012
Italy
The rise of former mafia men turned actors.
2009
The double life of Russia’s missing tycoon.
2012
Russia’s bloody aluminum wars come to London’s courts.
2016
Reporting on Boris Berezovsky’s last days.
2009
Prison interview with Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
2004
Putin’s Russia on the eve of his second term.
2008
An essay on Putin, power and a new kind of Russia in the wake of the war in Georgia.