" Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact". - Thomas Huxley
Johann Hari is an award-winning journalist who writes twice-weekly for the Independent, and the Huffington Post. He is a contributing writer for Slate, and regularly appears on the BBC's Newsnight Review.
His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, El Mundo, The Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, South Africa's Star, The Irish Times, and a wide range of other international newspapers and magazines.
He has reported from Iraq, the Gaza Strip, the Congo, Bangladesh, India, Venezuela, Rwanda, Peru, Ethiopia, Mexico, the Central African Republic, Syria and the United States.
He has interviewed many global leaders and thinkers, including the Dalai Lama, Tony Blair, Hugo Chavez, George Michael, Dolly Parton, Salman Rushdie, Simon Peres, Gore Vidal, Abu Hamza and others. He has appeared as a commentator on CNN, NBC's Today program, Question Time, Newsnight and the Moral Maze.
He has won many of the biggest awards in British journalism. In 2010, he won the Martha Gellhorn Prize, and became the youngest person ever to be short-listed for Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards. In 2009, he was named Journalist of the Year by Stonewall. In 2008 he became the youngest person to ever win the George Orwell Prize, Britain's leading award for political writing. He was named 'Journalist of the Year' for his reporting on the war in Congo by Amnesty International in 2010.
Johann has written a play, "Going Down in History" and a book on the end of the Monarchy God Save The Queen?
Interview one first broadcast on 17th February 2006.
Interview two first broadcast on 27th October 2006.
Interview three first broadcast on 4th February 2011.
An interview by Neil Denny with Johann recorded at the delightful Miller's Academy on Wednesday 21st November 2007 can be downloaded here.