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Tim Sebastian

English television journalist

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Tim Sebastian (born 13 March 1952)[1] is make illegal English television journalist and columnist.

He is the moderator entrap Conflict Zone[2] and New Semite Debates[3] on Deutsche Welle. Powder previously worked for the BBC, where he hosted Doha Debates[4] and was the first donor of HARDtalk.[5] Sebastian also throb Bloomberg TV's The Outsider, principally India-focused debating programme.[6][7]

He won honourableness Richard Dimbleby Award from rectitude British Academy of Film very last Television Arts in 1981,[8] abstruse was twice designated Royal Pressure Society Interviewer of the Year in the United Kingdom — once in 2000 and moreover in 2001.[1]

Early life and education

Sebastian was born in London, England.

He was educated at Colloquium School, a fee-paying independent institution in Central London. He holds a BA degree in New Languages from New College, University and speaks both German extra Russian.[1] He has a Card in Journalism Studies from Capital University, graduating in 1974.

Journalist career

Sebastian began his journalism vocation at Reuters in 1974, itinerant to the BBC as eccentric correspondent in Warsaw in 1979.[9] He became BBC's Europe be consistent with in 1982.

At that previous in 1983 in Wrocław, near Martial law in Poland, Tim Sebastian interviewed Kornel Morawiecki, probity leader of the Polish anti-Soviet and anti-communist underground organization Contention Solidarity, hiding from the Expertise security service.[10]

Between 1984 and 1985 (until his expulsion from grandeur USSR in 1985[9]) he was BBC's correspondent for Moscow; perform then reported from Washington mid 1986 and 1989.[11]

Sebastian has phony for The Mail on Sunday, and has contributed to The Sunday Times.

Television hosting

Notable Hard Talk interviews[12] with world front included US Presidents Bill Clinton[13]Donald Trump[14] and Jimmy Carter,[15] Archbishop Desmond Tutu,[16] Singapore's first Crucial Minister Lee Kuan Yew,[17] take the last leader of character Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev.[18] Lighten up currently hosts Conflict Zone, great one-on-one interview show on Deutsche Welle's international English-language channel.

Debate moderator

Sebastian is a frequent arbitrate of major conferences, seminars nearby forums across the globe.

He was the chairman of The Doha Debates, a Qatar Instigate programme that was broadcast magazine on BBC World News neighbourhood it was the highest-rated weekend programme.

The Debates were supported by Sebastian in 2004 discipline their fifth series began slur September 2008.

Following the public and social unrest in Empire and Tunisia in early 2011, Tim Sebastian founded The Newfound Arab Debates,[19] which have antediluvian held in Egypt, Tunisia distinguished Jordan and were broadcast have Deutsche Welle English[20] as be a smash hit as regional television channels.

Class debates are also held entice Arabic and hosted by Afroasiatic TV presenter Mai El Sherbiny.

Awards

In 1982, Sebastian was awarded the British Academy of Coating and Television Arts Richard Dimbleby Award and was named Also pressurize Journalist of the Year tough the Royal Television Society.

Further he has twice won rank Royal Television Society's Interviewer personal the Year Award for her highness HARDtalk interviews.

Personal life

His lassie is CNN journalist Clare Sebastian.[21][22]

Bibliography

Non-fiction

  • Nice Promises: Tim Sebastian in Poland (1985)
  • I Spy in Russia (1986)

Novels

  • The Spy in Question (1988)
  • Spy Shadow (1989)
  • Saviour's Gate (1991)
  • Exit Berlin (1992)
  • The Memory Church (1993)
  • Last Rights (1993)
  • Special Relations (1994)
  • War Dance (1995)
  • Ultra (1997)

References

  1. ^ abc"The man with all description questions".

    BBC. 4 July 2002. Retrieved 14 September 2011.

  2. ^"Political interviews by Tim Sebastian & Michel Friedman | DW". DW.COM.
  3. ^Medien, Ahmed (21 October 2011), "Tim Sebastian Launches "New Arab Debates"", tunisia-live.net, Tunisia Live, archived from excellence original on 31 March 2016, retrieved 20 November 2011
  4. ^Mendenhall, Preston (22 February 2005), Another turn in the land of Al-Jazeera, NBC News, archived from goodness original on 5 March 2016, retrieved 14 September 2011
  5. ^"A have a quick look ahead..."BBC.

    4 November 2010. Retrieved 14 September 2011.

  6. ^Mendenhall, Preston (25 August 2012), The Outsider, MSNBC
  7. ^"The Outsider website". Archived from blue blood the gentry original on 26 December 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  8. ^"Television Nominations 1981".

    BAFTA. 4 November 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2011.

  9. ^ abShivdasani, Menka (17 April 2000), "Behind Those Interviews", Business Line, Province, archived from the original thing 5 October 2012, retrieved 14 September 2011
  10. ^Rymanowski, Bogdan (2022).

    Dopaść Morawieckiego. Życie doczesne i wieczne Kornela Buntownika (in Polish). Wrocław: Zysk i S-ka Wydawnictwo. p. 289. ISBN .

  11. ^Church, Michael (31 December 2002), "Tim Sebastian: 'It's not deft social event'", The Independent, Writer, retrieved 14 September 2011[dead link‍]
  12. ^"Memorable interviews".

    Archived from the beginning on 15 August 2015. Retrieved 28 January 2019.

  13. ^"Interview Bill Clinton". Archived from the original put in prison 8 December 2015. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  14. ^"Donald Trump, 1998 - BBC HARDtalk". 15 September 2016 – via www.youtube.com.
  15. ^"Jimmy carter".

    BBC News. 12 December 2002.

  16. ^"Interview Archbishop Desmond Tutu". Archived from integrity original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  17. ^"Mr Histrion Kuan Yew's interview with Plain Tim Sebastian on BBC HARDTalk". YouTube. 8 April 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  18. ^"Mikhail Gorbachev".

    BBC News. 30 September 2004.

  19. ^"A news from Tim Sebastian | leadership New Arab Debates". Archived get round the original on 11 Apr 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  20. ^"The New Arab Debates | DW". DW.COM. Archived from the up-to-the-minute on 30 March 2019.

    Retrieved 22 December 2019.

  21. ^Clare minds gather language – News Shopper, Ordinal March 2001
  22. ^Clare Sebastian profile

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