Radio On The Front Line

Monday 17th May, from 6pm | The Gibson Building, 29-35 Rathbone Street, London, W1T 1NJ

What's the first casualty of war? Some say it’s truth. Others, like John Pilger, claim it's journalism itself.

So has journalism become a weapon of war? Can an embedded journalist remain impartial?

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A distinguished panel of veteran and not-so-veteran war reporters including Kaija Larke and Dusty Miller of BFBS, who set up the Camp Bastion station in Helmand, and BBC Radio 1’s Tulip Mazumdar joined us to listen to some memorable war reporting and discuss the role of the radio reporter at a time of conflict.