ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Welcome to WAR TRIBE, the podcast that explores the work not just of the big name correspondents but the wider tribe of the those who contribute to conflict reporting in the field.
Hosted by Richard Pendry, previously a member of the specialist war reporting agency Frontline News which became the Frontline Club in Paddington, London. He has worked as a journalist and researcher in different areas of conflict.
Produced by Peter Emina.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 5 days
Average audio length:
39 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United Kingdom
9 episodes
since March 17, 2026
serial
IN THIS PODCAST 🔗
OLDEST EPISODE 🔗
The first two episodes feature an interview with the photographer Paul Conroy who has died, at home with family in Devon, of a heart attack.
We thought it was important to put out this out as an extended recording in two parts, as a tribute to his unique contribution to conflict journalism.
Paul wa…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
PAUL CONROY PHOTOGRAPHER PART 2
What Paul looked for in a reporter when working with one; his unexpected Hollywood red-carpet period with Jamie Doran and Rosamund Pike; and why he and Marie Colvin decided to make the live broadcasts that killed her.
The interview ends suddenly. Paul was unhurt, but…
For years now, BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson can't help seeing his young son in his mind's eye, as he reports on families suffering in war zones. Simpson says he's gloomy about journalism's future and argues that modern conflicts—especially Gaza—are increasingly closed to journalists, shapi…
How do you freelance in a war zone?
In this episode of War Tribe, I speak to journalist and author Jen Stout about reporting from Ukraine without the backing of a major organisation — and what that really involves on the ground. Her book Night Train to Odesa traces that experience, while her report…
In this episode of War Tribe, we meet Eliot Higgins, the founder of the citizen journalist collective Bellingcat.
He has changed the way conflict reporting is done in recent years.
Eliot works with more traditional war reporters to investigate what really happened in high profile cases where the …
My former colleague at Frontline News, combat cameraman Peter Jouvenal talks about the importance of the personal touch in finding stories.
Peter shares how he made BBC correspondent John Simpson's famous 'liberation' of Kabul happen -- it was all down to a prosthetic leg he'd arranged for a key co…
Wendy Smith’s story begins with a violent rupture: a motorbike crash that left her with a spinal injury and eight months in hospital, told she might never walk again. She ignored it. Walking out on crutches, she began a decades-long process of rebuilding—not just physically, but psychologically.
No…
For the final episode of Season One of WAR TRIBE, Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Horyevoy wakes after a night spent sheltering in his basement during a Russian bombardment.
From that vantage point, he reflects on what he’s learned working alongside international journalists — and the personal qualitie…
For this bonus episode, foreign correspondent Sally Hayden talks to Richard about love in wartime — and why she wanted to tell stories beyond the familiar themes of loss and trauma. Her new book, This Is Also a Love Story, explores the different forms love can take in conflict and its aftermath. In…
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