Category: How It Was Done

How Anwar Sadat’s assassination – exactly 29 years ago today – became my history-making scoop. Well, actually, not quite.

6 October 2020 By Paul Martin

It was October 6 1981 and I was having a very pleasant off-duty day in Egypt. My superior BBC colleague was in charge.

Eyewitness How It Was Done Strange as It Seems

He used his creative imagination to bring Chopin back from beyond the grave. Pianist Alan Kogosowski completes and plays a concerto that Chopin did not finish: his Concerto Number 3.

1 October 2020 By Paul Martin

Alan Kogosowski has brought the magic of Frederic Chopin back from beyond the grave. The Australian pianist completed a unique version of the Austrian composer’s long-delayed and ultimately unfinished Third Piano Concerto in A major, Opus 46. He has now done its final revision. Correspondent.world accompanied Kogosowshi to Paris where he drew new inspiration by visiting […]

Analysis Corona and Covid How It Was Done Latest News

The fine print in a statistical report on the Covid-19 crisis published today (March 30) shows that hundreds more are dead than the UK government previously admitted. (Correspondent.world told you so a week ago.)

31 March 2020 By Paul Martin

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How It Was Done Insight

Protected: Ten years since his capture by a hardline Hamas ‘internal security’ force inside Gaza, a veteran foreign correspondent reveals the story behind his ordeal. And what he has learned, to his benefit, from that experience.

14 February 2020 By Paul Martin

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Eyewitness How It Was Done Insight Media Blunders or Media Brilliance

As I interviewed her, a flickering black-and-white television brought his ex-wife astonishing news. Nelson Mandela was to be set free.

12 February 2020 By Paul Martin

By Paul Martin in Cape Town. Returning to South Africa with a visa that banned me from doing any reporting I was secretly filming a story on how and where Mandela grew up.

Eyewitness How It Was Done Insight

Free At last. Thirty years after Nelson Mandela’s release, we reveal the small part I played in what happened next.

10 February 2020 By Paul Martin

By Paul Martin. Cape Town

How It Was Done Latest News Media Blunders or Media Brilliance

‘Liar.’ In the troubling case of a young British woman accused of faking a gang-rape allegation in Cyprus, journalists accuse the chief investigator of lying. It may help get her conviction reversed.

1 January 2020 By Paul Martin

By Paul Martin

How It Was Done Insight

Back where it all happened. I had been the first journalist to get to the place of the Ceausescus’ deaths. It was the only execution of a European leader since the end of World War Two. But, 30 years later, questions remain about what really happened there.

25 December 2019 By Paul Martin

EXCLUSIVE: By Paul Martin in Targoviste, Romania. The bullet holes in the brown wall have only been partly patched up with white cement. I’m standing on the exact spot where the Ceausescus’s died – in the yard behind the Targoviste military barracks. It looks exactly the same thirty years later – just the trees seem […]

How It Was Done Insight

I watched the Velvet Revolution unfold as it played out in Prague. Thirty years later, I meet up again with a woman who became the face of the heroic striking students.

25 November 2019 By Paul Martin

By Paul Martin. Monika Pajerová was one of those brave students you simply do not forget.

How It Was Done Insight

Thirty years ago the Velvet Revolution brought a playwright to power. Václav Havel continued (figuratively) to ‘stride the boards’ on a new stage. He was in a new real-life role: as his country’s anti-Communist pro-democracy President.

10 November 2019 By Paul Martin

By Paul Martin It was to be a strange but enlightening encounter. Our translator, our video cameraman, our producer and I had walked up a staircase to a nondescript apartment in a building close to the Vltava River in the centre of the Czech capital Prague.