MARK FRANCHETTI
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"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
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Iraq war

Battle of Nasiriyah.

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2003

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Iraq war

Exclusive Interview with Saddam regime torturer

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2003

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Chechnya

​Excusive Interview with female suicide bomber

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2016
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Amazon

​Ayahuasca – the toughest and most humbling experience of my life.

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2010

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Chechnya

​exclusive diary of Russian elite Spetsnaz officer – a chilling record of executions, torture and despair during 20 tours in Chechnya.

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2008

Naples

​meeting the drug dealers of the Camorra, the Naples mafia.


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2009

Beslan

5 years after the school terrorist attack.


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1998

Chechnya

exclusive interview with Shamil Basayev, Russia’s terrorist # 1 in Grozny – then the world’s kidnapping capital.


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1997

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First foreign reporter to gain access to a Russian TB prison colony.


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1999

Reportage from inside a Russian orphanage where disabled children are left to die.


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2014

Ukraine war

Embedded with pro Russian forces on the front line during a bloody battle.


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2007

Italy

exclusive interview with the mafia’s most wanted woman.


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2002

Chechnya

The dirty undercover war to wipe out Chechen rebels.


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1998

First British journalist to gain access to Arzamas 16 – the secret city that was the powerhouse of the Soviet nuclear programme.


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2007

Shadowing Andrei Lugovoi, who is wanted by Scotland Yard for the polonium poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko.


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2010

“You’re making the same mistakes”

​two Afghan war heroes, one Russian one British, meet to share their experiences.


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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.

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1998

KGB spy: how I ran CIA’s super-mole.

​Interview with the man who ran America’s two worst traitors.

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2011

Alexei Navalny and the unlikely revolutionaries behind the anti-Putin mass demonstrations.


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2008

War in Georgia front line reportage


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1998

Vorkuta

​Stalin’s forgotten children. Gulag victims left stranded.


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2001

War in Afghanistan coverage

​front line reportage.


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2001

War in Afghanistan coverage


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2004

Coverage of the aftermath of the Beslan school terrorist attack.


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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.


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2002

Afghanistan war coverage

front line reportage.


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2000

Chechnya

The fall of Grozny, front line reportage.


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1998

Interview with the Kremlin guard who shot Lavrenti Beria.


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2002

Exclusive interview with British family taken hostage in the Moscow theatre siege.


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First British media interview with Pussy Riot after their release from prison.

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2003

Iraq

front line interview in Falluja with Islamic militants.


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1997

interviewing Russian mafia Godfathers.


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2004

Iraq 

Reportage on the anarchy and violence of “post war” Iraq.


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2009

The rise and fall of Russia’s oligarchs.


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2016

​Ten years after Alexander Litvinenko’s polonium murder, shadowing his alleged killer.


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2003

Iraq

CIA recruits Iraq’s feared secret police.


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1999

Chechnya

front line reportage.


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2006

Chechnya

Interviewing victims of Ramzan Kadyrov’s torture chambers.


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1999

Chechnya

Front line reportage.


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​2003

Iraq

Honor killings and interview with one of Saddam’s bodyguards.

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2009

Dagestan

​The secret dirty war.

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2016

“The Americans squandered the trust we built”

​Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev.

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2012

Italy

​The rise of former mafia men turned actors.  


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2009

The double life of Russia’s missing tycoon.


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2012

Russia’s bloody aluminum wars come to London’s courts.


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2016

Reporting on Boris Berezovsky’s last days.


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2009

Prison interview with Mikhail Khodorkovsky.


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2004

Putin’s Russia on the eve of his second term.


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2008

An essay on Putin, power and a new kind of Russia in the wake of the war in Georgia.

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2000

coverage of Kursk submarine tragedy

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2001

Afghans perish in no man's land

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2009

Arctic Sea cargo ship mystery

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2005

Embedding with Chechen militias

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