Award-winning foreign correspondent and bestselling writer Christina Lamb explains how the West turned success into defeat in Afghanistan. The conflict was the longest ever fought by the United States and the longest fought by Britain since the Hundred Years War. Lamb, the leading journalist on the region, argues that it is a story of well-intentioned men and women entering a place they did not understand – a fiasco that has left the country still one of the poorest and most dangerous in the world.

Lamb has been a foreign correspondent for 20 years and currently works for The Sunday Times. She is a two times winner of foreign correspondent of the year in the British Press Awards and the BBC What The Papers Say Awards. She is author of the bestselling The Africa House and I Am Malala, co-authored with Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

Supported by Ian and Carol Sellars.