At our meeting this evening we welcome veteran war correspondent Tony Birtley a multi-award-winning TV journalist who has covered some of the biggest conflicts since the Second World War. Wounded three times in the course of a career spanning more than 40 years his first war was in Lebanon and since then he has covered Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Somalia, Chechnya, and Libya, to name but some. He spent the best part of four years covering the conflict in Bosnia where he took incredible risks to get into the besieged Muslim enclave of Srebrenica and his smuggled, graphic reports gave the outside world the first view of the widescale, killing, ethnic cleansing and hunger. He was badly wounded there and had to be airlifted out but his reports helped the town become a safe haven. He has notched up some other world world exclusives including the fall of Kabul to the Mujahadeen in 1992, the Crackdown in Myanmar in 2008 and the capture of Muamar Gadaffi in 2011.
Tony comes to us to talk about his new book, "The Edge of Madness", a novel based on his experiences in Bosnia as, well as the wider issue of facts and fiction in media. His talk is entitled 'Who's truth is it anyway', which looks at where we get our 'truth' and why we believe it.
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