Is Anything Happening?

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by Lustig, Robin;

Lebanon 1, 2, 3

Lee, Christopher 1

Legum, Colin 1

Lehrer, Tom 1

Leigh, David 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Lemon, Denis 1, 2, 3

Levin, Bernard 1

Lewinsky, Monica 1, 2

Liddle, Rob 1, 2

Lincoln, Abraham 1

Linklater, Magnus 1, 2

Lippmann, Walter 1

Listener, The 1

Little, Allan 1

Long, Gerald 1

Looking for Democracy 1, 2

Lost Horizon (Hilton) 1

Lucas, Ivor 1

Lustig, Eva (RL’s aunt) 1, 2

Lustig, Franz (RL’s grandfather) 1

Lustig, Fritz (RL’s father) 1 escape from Nazi Germany 1, 2

early married life 1, 2

and birth of RL 1

career of 1, 2

home life 1

life in Reading 1

worries about RL 1

interned on Isle of Man 1

Lustig, Hannah (RL’s daughter) 1, 2, 3

Lustig, Josh (RL’s son) 1, 2, 3

Lustig, Robin reports on 9/11 attacks 1

on rolling news 1, 2

on Scud FM 1, 2

reports on death of Diana, Princess of Wales 1

reports on 1999 Remembrance Sunday 1

on royal occasions 1

political interviews 1

on vox pops 1

meetings with Eddie Watkins 1

in ‘hostile environment’ training 1

and Turkish invasion of Cyprus 1

in Western Sahara 1

during Falklands conflict 1, 2

in Afghanistan 1

in Bhutan 1, 2

in Brazil 1

experience of airports 1

experience of hotels 1

experience of food 1

birth of 1, 2

early childhood 1, 2

adolescence in Reading 1

first unaccompanied foreign trips 1

at University of Sussex 1, 2

gap year in Uganda 1, 2

as student journalist 1

joins Reuters 1, 2

posted to Madrid 1

posted to Paris 1, 2

posted to Brussels 1

posted to Italy 1

joins The Observer 1, 2

at Gay News blasphemy trial 1

at Jeremy Thorpe trial 1

and 1979 general election 1

reports from Italy for The Observer 1

and Mark Thatcher 1

and ‘troubles’ in Northern Ireland 1

and Golden Temple at Amritsar 1

and Jane Bown 1

and MI6 bugging of Soviet trade mission 1

and Lonhro purchase of The Observer 1, 2

decides to leave The Observer 1

Jewish faith of 1

as Middle East correspondent 1, 2, 3

on Israeli/Palestinian conflict 1

on The World Tonight 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

love of party conference season 1

on BBC Radio 5 Live 1

on Call Robin Lustig 1

on Newshour 1, 2, 3

on BBC World Service 1, 2, 3, 4

on Have Your Say 1

on invasion of Iraq 1

reports on major occasions for BBC World Service 1

reports on British general elections 1

on problems at the BBC 1

reports from the US 1

decides to leave BBC 1

works on In the Footsteps of Our Families 1

on condition of journalism 1

on future of BBC 1

Lustig, Rose (RL’s grandmother) 1

Lustig, Stephen (RL’s brother) 1, 2, 3

Lustig, Susan (RL’s mother) escape from Nazi Germany 1

early married life 1, 2

and birth of RL 1

career of 1

home life 1

life in Reading 1

death of 1

Lustig, Ted (RL’s uncle) 1

Lustiger, Jean-Marie 1

Lyalin, Oleg 1

Lynden, Aernout van 1

McAlpine, Lord 1

McCain, John 1

McCann, Madeleine 1

McCarthy, Eugene 1, 2

McCarthy, John 1

McCartney, Paul 1

MacDonald, Ramsay 1

McGovern, George 1

McGuinness, Martin 1

McGuire, Sean 1

Machel, Graça 1

McIlvanney, Hugh 1

McKinstry, Carolyn 1

MacLeod, Alexander 1, 2

McLeod, Beth 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

McMahon, Thomas 1

MacMaster, Tom 1

Magee, Patrick 1

Mail on Sunday 1

Major, John 1

Makarios, Archbishop 1

Makerere College School 1, 2

Mandela, Nelson 1, 2, 3, 4

Mandelson, Peter 1

Mansour, Issan 1

Marr, Andrew 1

Marsh, Kevin 1

Martin, Gordon 1

Massoud, Ahmad Shah 1

Mather, Ian 1

Matthews, Chris 1

Matthews, Tanya 1

Maxwell, Paul 1

Maxwell, Robert 1

May, David 1

Mbeki, Thabo 1

Meir, Golda 1, 2

Mencken, H. L. 1

Mengele, Josef 1

Mexico 1, 2

Miceli, Vito 1

Middleton, Kate 1

Milburn, Alan 1

Miliband, David 1, 2

Miller, Aaron David 1

Miller, Catherine 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Millinship, Bill 1, 2

Milošević, Slobodan 1, 2

Mitchell, Derek 1

Mitterrand, François 1

Montagu, Edwin 1

Montgomerie, John 1

Moore, Charles 1

Moro, Aldo 1, 2

Morris, Kylie 1

Morrison, Blake 1

Mortimer, John 1, 2

Mortimer, Penelope 1

Mountbatten, Lord 1

Mowlam, Mo 1

Mugabe, Robert 1

Murdoch, Rupert 1, 2, 3, 4

Murray, Rosemary 1

Museveni, Yoweri 1

Musharraf, Pervez 1

Nagenda, John 1

Nairn, Tom 1

Napley, David 1

Naughtie, Jim 1

Neave, Airey 1

Nepal 1, 2

Netanyahu, Benjamin 1

New Statesman 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

New York Times 1

Newman, Nic 1, 2

Newsbeat 1

Newshour Alex Brodie on 1

RL on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Newsnight 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Newstand 1

Newsweek 1

Newton, Andrew 1, 2, 3

Nichols, Peter 1

Nidal, Abu 1

Nigeria 1, 2, 3

Night and Day (Stoppard) 1, 2

Nixon, Richard 1, 2, 3

Nkomo, Joshua 1

North Greenford 1

Northern Ireland 1, 2

Obama, Barack 1, 2, 3

Obank, Ken 1

Obasanjo, Olusegun 1, 2, 3

Obote, Milton 1, 2

Obote, Miria 1

O’Brien, Conor Cruise 1

Observer, The 1 RL joins 1, 2

description of 1

RL starts work for 1

RL reports on Gay News blasphemy trial 1

RL reports on Jeremy Thorpe trial 1

RL reports from Italy 1

and Mark Thatcher 1, 2

and ‘troubles’ in Northern Ireland 1

and Golden Temple in Amritsar 1

Jane Bown at 1

and MI6 bugging of Soviet trade mission 1

and Falklands conflict 1

bought by Lonrho 1

RL decides to leave 1

bought by The Gua
rdian 1

RL as Middle East correspondent for 1, 2, 3

Ontiveros, Eva 1

Organ, John 1

Orwell, George 1, 2

Paisley, Ian 1

Pakistan 1

Paris RL’s Reuters posting to 1, 2

Parkinson, Cecil 1

Parks, Rosa 1

Pasolini, Pier Paolo 1

Passow, Aviva 1

Passow, David 1

Passow, Judah 1

Passow, Mimi 1

Passow, Sam 1

Paul VI, Pope 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Paxman, Jeremy 1, 2, 3

Payne, Ronnie 1

Peirce, Gareth 1

Penrose, Barrie 1

Peres, Shimon 1, 2

Perón, Eva 1

Perón, Juan 1, 2

Peru 1

Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 1

Philippson, Hansi (RL’s great-aunt) 1

Phillips, Justin 1, 2

Pisano family 1

Pol Pot 1

Poland 1

Pompidou, Georges 1

Portillo, Michael 1

Powell, Colin 1

Prescott, John 1

Prime, Tony 1

Purnell, James 1

Qatar 1

Question Time 1

Qumsieh, George 1

Rabin, Yitzhak 1, 2, 3, 4

Ramberg, Agneta 1

Ranariddh, Norodom 1

Raoni, Chief 1

Rato, Rodrigo de 1

Reading 1

Redgrave, Michael 1

Redhead, Brian 1

Rees-Jones, Trevor 1

Rees-Mogg, Elizabeth 1

Rees-Mogg, William 1, 2

Reuter, Paul Julius 1

Reuters RL joins 1, 2

history of 1

RL works for 1

Reyat, Inderjit Singh 1

Reynolds, Gillian 1

Rigby, Lee 1

Rippon, Peter 1

Rivlin, Reuven 1

Rob, Carolyn 1

Robbins, James 1

Robertson, Geoffrey 1

Robinson, Mary 1

Romania 1

Rome RL’s Reuters posting to 1

Romney, Mitt 1

Rosi, Paola 1

Ross, Jonathan 1

Ross, Nick 1, 2

Roux, Albert 1

Rowland, ‘Tiny’ 1, 2, 3, 4

Royce, Rachel 1

Rumor, Mariano 1

Rumor of War (Caputo) 1

Rusbridger, Alan 1

Russell, Bertrand 1

Russell, Jenni 1

Russia 1 (see also Soviet Union)

Sachs, Andrew 1

Sackur, Stephen 1

Sadat, Anwar 1

St Jorre, John de 1

Saleh, Fuad 1

Sambrook, Richard 1

Samuelson, Paul 1

Sanders, Bernie 1

Sartre, Jean-Paul 1, 2

Saudi Arabia 1, 2

Savile, Jimmy 1, 2

Scheffer, Jaap de Hoop 1

Schild, Rolf 1

Schmidt, Helmut 1

Schofield, John 1, 2, 3, 4

Schumacher, E. F. 1

Scoop (Waugh) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Scott, C. P. 1

Scott, Norman 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Scud FM 1, 2

Sebba, Anne 1

Seidel, Stu 1

Sells, David 1, 2

Sevareid, Eric 1

Shamir, Yitzhak 1

Sharon, Ariel 1, 2

Shinawatra, Thaksin 1

Shuttlesworth, Fred L. 1

Simpson, Natasha 1

Singh, Manmohan 1

Sleat, Neil 1

Smith, Colin 1, 2

Smith, John 1

Smith, Sandra 1

Snow, Jon 1

Snowden, Edward 1

Somalia 1, 2

Somerville, Keith 1

South Africa 1

Soviet Union 1 see also Russia

Spain 1, 2, 3

Spectator, The 1, 2

Spence, Basil 1

Spencer-Bourne, Holly 1, 2

Stafford, Robin 1

Stalin, Joseph 1

Stephenson, Pamela 1

Stoneham School for Boys 1

Stop Press 1

Stoppard, Tom 1, 2

Stravinsky, Igor 1

Stuart, Douglas 1

Sunday Telegraph 1

Sunday Times shut down 1

bought by Rupert Murdoch 1, 2

on Israel’s nuclear weapons programme 1, 2

Suskind, Ron 1

Swan, Craig 1, 2 in Somalia 1, 2

on presenter/producer relationship 1

on The World Tonight 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

leaves The World Tonight 1

Syria 1

Talking Point 1

Taub, Zerak 1

Taylor, A. J. P. 1

Taylor, Robert 1

Taylor, Vicky 1

Tella, Guido di 1

Thailand 1

Thatcher, Denis 1, 2

Thatcher, Margaret and Falklands Conflict 1, 2

and 1979 general election 1, 2

and Mark Thatcher 1, 2, 3

at Conservative Party conference 1

Thatcher, Mark 1, 2

Thompson, Mark 1

Thomson, Ken 1

Thorpe, Jeremy 1

Thorpe, Marion 1, 2

Times, The RL writes for 1

shut down 1

bought by Rupert Murdoch 1, 2

on Lonhro purchase of The Observer 1

Today 1, 2, 3, 4

Trelford, Donald 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Trump, Donald 1

Trump, Ivana 1

Tully, Mark 1

Tuohy, William 1

Tutu, Desmond 1

Tymoshenko, Yulia 1

Tynan, Kenneth 1

Uganda 1, 2

Ukraine 1

Uncle Sam’s Refuseniks 1

United States of America 1

University of Sussex 1, 2

Uzell, Charles 1

Vanunu, Mordechai 1

Vejjajiva, Abhisit 1

Vester, Horatio 1

Vester, Val 1

Vestey, Michael 1

Vicary, Pierre 1

Vulliamy, Ed 1

Waite, Terry 1

Ware, Mary Smith 1

Waterman, Shaun 1

Watkins, Eddie 1

Waugh, Auberon 1

Waugh, Evelyn 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Webb, Justin 1

Webber, Anne 1

Weil, Gritta 1

Western Sahara 1

Wheeler, Charles 1

When I Lived in Modern Times (Grant) 1

Whitby, Tony 1

Whitehorn, Katharine 1

Whitehouse, Mary 1, 2

Widgery, Lord 1

Wilde, Oscar 1

Willetts, David 1

Willey, David 1

William, Prince 1, 2

Williams, Zoe 1

Williamson, Lucy 1

Winchester, Simon 1

Windlesham, Lord 1

Wine Press 1, 2, 3

Witchell, Nick 1

Withers, Kay 1

Witherow, John 1

Wogan, Terry 1

World Tonight, The 1 Anthony Howard considers return 1

RL on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Wrocław 1, 2, 3

Young, Gavin 1

Younge, Gary 1

Zentner, Phil 1, 2

Zimbabwe 1, 2

Zimmerman, Neetzan 1

Zuckerberg, Mark 1

With my mother, 1950

A music teacher in Uganda, 1967

With fellow Reuters trainees (I’m second from the right), 1970

A reporter at The Observer, 1978

On the front line, Western Sahara, 1978

In Moscow for the end of the USSR, December 1991

With Craig Swan in Bosnia, 1996

> In lawless southern Somalia, 1997

Injured in Pakistan, 1997

Broadcasting live from Kosovo (in borrowed carpet slippers), 1999

With Nelson Mandela, Johannesburg, 2001

Commentating at the Queen Mother’s funeral, 2002 © BBC

With President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, 2005

In the studio, 2007 © BBC

Three Laptops Lustig, Istanbul, 2007

Election night in Madrid, 2008

In chilly Birmingham, Alabama, with sound engineer Lee Chaundy, January 2009

With sound engineer Jacques Sweeney and producer Beth McLeod in Teotihuacan, Mexico, July 2009

With producer Ian Brimacombe in Chicago (to talk about global warming!), November 2009

Crossing the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest with Beth McLeod and Phil Zentner, 2011

With Chief Raoni Metuktire of the indigenous Kayapo people, Amazon basin, 2011

Buying coca leaves on the streets of Tingo María, central Peru, 2012

With the award-winning Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2012

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