MICHAEL BUERK

MICHAEL BUERK

We are delighted that Michael Buerk will be the opening speaker of this year’s LitFest. He knows Bristol well, launching his career as a broadcast journalist in the city in 1973. Michael will be in conversation with David Parker. Since then he has gone on to win a host of awards including the 1984 Royal Television Society “Television Journalist of the Year” for his extraordinary and ground breaking reporting of the famine in Ethiopa in 1984-85. In 1988 he was the third recipient of the James Cameron Memorial award, given for ‘work as a journalist that combined moral vision and professional integrity’ in his coverage of the township uprising and state of emergency in South Africa.

It is that integrity, moral compass and in depth knowledge that makes Michael the perfect chair of BBC Radio 4’s discussion programme on moral and ethical issues, ‘The Moral Maze’.

Michael’s talk starts at 7pm, the bar in the church opens at 6pm