Photograph courtesy of the Soldier’s Media Center

We’re really excited about the programme of speakers we put together for Lent Term, over the next week we’ll be announcing our termcard and giving you a bit of background about our speakers. Our first speaker for Lent Term will be the journalist David Loyn.

David Loyn is the BBC’s Developing World Correspondent, having reported extensively from Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11 and from Iraq after the outbreak of war - David Loyn speaks from a position of exceptional experience about life on the front line in the ‘War on Terror’.

David has worked as BBC reporter for over 20 years, in his time he covered the first free elections in Poland and the fall of the Berlin wall, he reported frequently from Kashmir and Sri Lanka, and followed the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan. His crew were the only journalists with the Taliban when they took Kabul.

David Loyn will address Clare Politics on the subject of:
‘Afghanistan: How we got there and where we’re going’.

Filed under: 9/11, afghanistan, bbc, clarepoliticsnews, davidloyn, journalism, taliban on January 11th, 2008