Five Minutes With…John Sweeney

“It’s like Frankenstein. He created this monster, who became uncontrollable.” Fascinating talk with John Sweeney about his views on Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin and the war in Ukraine.

John Sweeney is a writer and journalist who, while working for the BBC, has challenged dictators, despots, cult leaders, con artists and crooked businessmen for many years. As a reporter, first for the Observer and then for the BBC, Sweeney has covered wars and chaos in more than eighty countries and been undercover to a number of tyrannies, including Chechnya, North Korea and Zimbabwe.

He was at Chalke Valley History on Tuesday 26th June to join a panel discussing 'Putin's Russia' together with Samuel Ramani and Marina Litvinenko.