Tim Sebastian

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  • novelist
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Tim Sebastian (born 13 March 1952)[1] is an English television journalist and novelist. He is the moderator of Conflict Zone[2] and New Arab Debates[3] on Deutsche Welle. He previously worked for the BBC, where he hosted Doha Debates[4] and was the first presenter of HARDtalk.[5] Sebastian also presented Bloomberg TV's The Outsider, an India-focused debating programme.[6][7]

He won the Richard Dimbleby Award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1981,[8] and was twice designated Royal Television Society Interviewer of the Year in the United Kingdom — once in 2000 and again in 2001.[1]

Early life and education

Sebastian was born in London, England. He was educated at Westminster School, a fee-paying independent school in Central London. He holds a BA degree in Modern Languages from New College, Oxford and speaks both German and Russian.[1] He has a Diploma in Journalism Studies from Cardiff University, graduating in 1974.

Journalist career

Sebastian began his journalism career at Reuters in 1974, moving to the BBC as foreign correspondent in Warsaw in 1979.[9] He became BBC's Europe correspondent in 1982. At that time in 1983 in Wrocław, during Martial law in Poland, Tim Sebastian interviewed Kornel Morawiecki, the leader of the Polish anti-Soviet and anti-communist underground organization Fighting Solidarity, hiding from the Polish security service.[10]

Between 1984 and 1985 (until his expulsion from the USSR in 1985[9]) he was BBC's correspondent for Moscow; he then reported from Washington between 1986 and 1989.[11]

Sebastian has worked for The Mail on Sunday, and has contributed to The Sunday Times.

Television hosting

Sebastian was the original presenter of HARDtalk when the programme launched in March 1997.[12] He hosted the show till March 2007.[13] Hard Talk had many notable interviews with world leaders,[14] including US Presidents Bill Clinton[15] Donald Trump[16] and Jimmy Carter,[17] Archbishop Desmond Tutu,[18] Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew,[19] and the last leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev.[20] He currently hosts Conflict Zone, a one-on-one interview show on Deutsche Welle's international English-language channel.

Debate moderator

Sebastian is a frequent moderator of major conferences, seminars and forums across the globe.

He was the chairman of The Doha Debates, a Qatar Foundation programme that was broadcast monthly on BBC World News where it was the highest-rated weekend programme. The Debates were founded by Sebastian in 2004 and their fifth series began in September 2008.

Following the political and social unrest in Egypt and Tunisia in early 2011, Tim Sebastian founded The New Arab Debates,[21] which have been held in Egypt, Tunisia and Jordan and were broadcast on Deutsche Welle English[22] as well as regional television channels. The debates are also held in Arabic and hosted by Egyptian TV presenter Mai El Sherbiny.

Awards

In 1982, Sebastian was awarded the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Richard Dimbleby Award and was named Television Journalist of the Year by the Royal Television Society. Additionally he has twice won the Royal Television Society's Interviewer of the Year Award for his HARDtalk interviews.

Personal life

His daughter is CNN journalist Clare Sebastian.[23][24]

Bibliography

Non-fiction

  • Nice Promises: Tim Sebastian in Poland (1985)
  • I Spy in Russia (1986)

Novels

  • The Spy in Question (1988)
  • Spy Shadow (1989)
  • Saviour's Gate (1991)
  • Exit Berlin (1992)
  • The Memory Church (1993)
  • Last Rights (1993)
  • Special Relations (1994)
  • War Dance (1995)
  • Ultra (1997)

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  1. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The man with all the questions". BBC. 4 July 2002. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Political interviews by Tim Sebastian & Michel Friedman | DW". DW.COM.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Medien, Ahmed (21 October 2011), "Tim Sebastian Launches "New Arab Debates"", tunisia-live.net, Tunisia Live, archived from the original on 31 March 2016, retrieved 20 November 2011
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mendenhall, Preston (22 February 2005), Another revolution in the land of Al-Jazeera, NBC News, archived from the original on 5 March 2016, retrieved 14 September 2011
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."A look ahead..." BBC. 4 November 2010. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mendenhall, Preston (25 August 2012), The Outsider, MSNBC
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Outsider website". Archived from the original on 26 December 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Television Nominations 1981". BAFTA. 4 November 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2011.
  9. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Shivdasani, Menka (17 April 2000), "Behind Those Interviews", Business Line, Madras, archived from the original on 5 October 2012, retrieved 14 September 2011
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rymanowski, Bogdan (2022). Dopaść Morawieckiego. Życie doczesne i wieczne Kornela Buntownika (in polski). Wrocław: Zysk i S-ka Wydawnictwo. p. 289. ISBN 9788382026986.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Church, Michael (31 December 2002), "Tim Sebastian: 'It's not a social event'", The Independent, London, retrieved 14 September 2011[dead link]
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fletcher, Martin (3 April 2017). "Meet Stephen Sackur – the world famous interviewer who's tougher than Paxman". Radio Times.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Tim Sebastian (1 March 2007). "Final farewell". BBC.co.uk. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Memorable interviews". Archived from the original on 15 August 2015. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Interview Bill Clinton". Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Donald Trump, 1998 - BBC HARDtalk". 15 September 2016 – via www.youtube.com.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jimmy carter". BBC News. 12 December 2002.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Interview Archbishop Desmond Tutu". Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Mr Lee Kuan Yew's interview with Mr Tim Sebastian on BBC HARDTalk". YouTube. 8 April 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Mikhail Gorbachev". BBC News. 30 September 2004.
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."A message from Tim Sebastian | the New Arab Debates". Retrieved 6 February 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The New Arab Debates | DW". DW.COM. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  23. ^ Clare minds her language – News Shopper, 28th March 2001
  24. ^ Clare Sebastian profile

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