Mr Nick Lera
| Bio | Nick Lera is a freelance TV producer and former BBC cameraman. In 1969 and 1970 he won the News Cameraman of the Year Award. War zones covered in the course of his career included the Middle East and Vietnam, 1972-3, the revolution in Portugal in 1974 and the US evacuation from Saigon in 1975. He participated in 'Newsnight' coverage of China in 1985 and 1989 and of the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, 1989-90. Between 1991 and 1994 he worked on 'Newsnight' profiles of leading political personalities including Benazir Bhutto and President Suharto. He has been a lifelong train enthusiast, and has produced video railway histories and TV programmes on railway journeys. |
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Lectures to The Society
| Title | Type | Date |
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| Riding the Frontier Rails |  |
Oct 1999 |
Articles in the Journal
| The Baluchistan 'white Elephant': the Chappar Rift and Other Strategic Railways on the Border of British India | ||
| Mr Nick Lera | ||
| Asian Affairs, Volume 31 Number 2 | July 2000 | |
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LIBRARY & ARCHIVE: TEMPORARY CLOSURE Shuts 16 May 2012, reopens 1st August 2012 more…
Festival of Asian Literature at Asia House 15 - 30 May 2012 more…
The Bangladeshi Novel The Royal Society of Literature Tagore Memorial Meeting, with speakers Philip Hensher and Tahmima Anam more…
"Yemen: Challenges for the Future" - an international conference (BYS & LMEI) Invitation for scholars to propose papers for conference in November 2012 more…
Ragmala Paintings from India: Poetry, passion, song Exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery: 25 January - 27 May 2012 more…
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The Art of Resistance in the Middle East
Ashoka: India's Lost Emperor Charles Allen returns the RSAA to speak about the re-discovery of one of India's greatest Emperors, Ashoka, and the empire he built
The Freedom Factor Humphrey Hawksley discusses how freedoms have come to the world and what can be done to support their spreading in the world
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