Michael Gove humiliating himself at university, a KGB-supplied sex manual and tales of derring-do in warzones around the world from foreign correspondent Luke.
Cast: Christopher Kent, Lynsey Murrell and Nigel Pilkington.
OFFCUTS:
- 04’00’’ – extract from a notebook written in Northern Afghanistan, 2001
- 11’34’’ – extract from a novel written in India, 1987
- 15’58’’ – article for the gossip column of the Oxford University newspaper The Cherwell, 1988
- 23’43’’ – obituary for The Guardian about Alexander Medvedev
- 30’54’’ – entry for a travel writing competition run by The Independent, 1987
- 35’41’’ – piece written about Donald Trump contracting covid, 2020
Luke Harding is an award-winning foreign correspondent with the Guardian. He has reported from Delhi, Berlin and Moscow and has also covered wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Libya and Syria. Between 2007 and 2011 he was the Guardian’s Moscow bureau chief; the Kremlin expelled him from the country in the first case of its kind since the cold war. He is the author of Mafia State and co-author of WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy, The Liar: The Fall of Jonathan Aitken (nominated for the Orwell Prize) and The Snowden Files and his latest book The Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia’s Remaking of the West was published earlier this year.
Two of Luke’s books have been made into films; The Fifth Estate and Snowden.
More about Luke Harding:
- Twitter: @LukeHarding
- Amazon: Luke Harding
- The Guardian: Luke Harding
