7.30 pm, Council Room, Mansfield College, Monday of 8th Week (08/03/2010)

Topic: “Europe and its age of anxiety”

Who: BBC Editor (Europe) – Gavin Hewitt

Gavin Hewitt – BBC Europe Editor – an experienced correspondent, Hewitt has covered many major events from the Soham murders and Potters Bar rail crash in the UK to the Kashmir disputes and recent United States elections.  He joined the BBC’s Panorama programme in 1984 as a presenter and was in East Berlin when the Berlin wall came down.  Whilst at Panorama, Hewitt made a programme which led to the largest ever investigation into police corruption in the UK, as well as programmes about the Kosovo crisis and about how student leaders were smuggled out of China following Tiananmen Square.

Meanwhile, in 2000 Gavin Hewitt became a Special Correspondent and in 2001 he won the Television Society Award for his coverage of the Oldham riots and, also won the Broadcast Award for England’s Shame, an investigation into England’s football hooliganism at Euro 2000.  Since then, Gavin has covered the war in the Middle East in 2006 in Israel and Lebanon – narrowly escaping a missile attack in Lebanon, has toured with Obama in Europe and the Middle East as well as Hurrican Katrina, the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan and the London bombings.

For more information please see the information card on Gavin Hewitt here. To find Mansfield College see this map. For Gavin’s BBC blog, see here.