Category: Romania
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Reporting the Cold War for Reuters & BBC
It was tremendous fun discussing with Ian Sanders of Cold War Conversations my years first as student in East Germany and the Soviet Union in 1971/72, and then covering the communist world for the next 20 years for Reuters and the BBC. Click the screenshots below for the recordings – first covering my student days…
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90 km from Auckland, and #TandemTA Tour Aotearoa getting serious
Fabulous day’s cycling today south-east from our generous hosts in Auckland Annette and Steven Thoms. Pouring with rain, but a howling and most helpful tailwind, and after 10 days on the road, both sets of tandem legs front and back beginning to get seriously into gear. (BTW realised today that when cycling, there is no…
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Remembering Romania and Ceausescu
Why did I switch from journalism to psychotherapy? As chronicled (cautiously) elsewhere on this site (see my long-in-the-tooth Masters thesis from 2000), Romania and covering the revolution there 20 years ago this month were, looking back, the decisive turning point. As this year of revolutionary anniversaries draws to a close (wall-to-wall coverage of the fall…
The PsychloTherapists 