Matt Frei is Europe Editor and Presenter at Channel 4 News.
This year he has led the Channel 4 News coverage of events in Ukraine from the crash site of Malaysia flight MH17, to the tensions in Crimea and reported live from Independence Square on Kiev’s bloodiest day. He has also secured major interviews with Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Aung San Suu Kyi.
Prior to his appointment as Europe Editor for Channel 4 News, Frei was the Washington Correspondent for two years and has reported on the Americas on everything from business and culture to US foreign policy and its view of the world.
He is also part of the presenting team across Channel 4's news and current affairs portfolio, including the award-winning Dispatches programme.
Matt previously anchored the BBC World News America bulletin and was also Washington Correspondent. He presented a weekly radio show called Americana, and in two decades at the corporation reported from Bonn, Rome, Bosnia, Kosovo, North Africa, Hong Kong and Singapore.
He is the author of two books: Italy: The Unfinished Revolution published in 1996 by Random House and Mandarin books and Only In America published in 2008 by 4th Estate.
We spoke to Alissa de Carbonnel, Deputy Programme Director for Europe and Central Asia at Crisis Group and previously European Security Correspondent for Reuters.
At least 50 people have been killed in two attacks in Pakistan.
Earlier we spoke to Giles Wilkes, who was economic adviser to Theresa May, and James Cowling, founder of Next Gen Tories, which campaigns for youth-friendly policies – including lower taxes.
Earlier we spoke to Sayce Holmes-Lewis, a London Police Board Member and the founder of Mentivity, an organisation providing support for young people, schools, parents and carers. And also Dal Babu, former chief superintendent in the Metropolitan police.
Sir Ian McKellen and Roger Allam are two of the country’s best loved actors – and they’re starring together in a story of middle aged romance on the London stage.
The writer Naomi Klein has taken a more personal turn with her latest book Doppelganger – exploring how she’s regularly mistaken for another writer, Naomi Wolf.
The Swedish Christian Democrat MEP Sara Skyttedal joins us from Croatia, where the centre-right EPP group is gathering to discuss their strategy ahead of next year’s European elections.
We spoke to former Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski and began by asking him if he was surprised by this sudden U-turn from the Polish Prime Minister?
Staunch allies Ukraine and Poland seem to have found themselves at odds. The point of contention – Ukrainian grain.
Earlier we spoke to Michael Wolff, the American journalist and author whose new book ‘The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire’ is out next week.
Earlier we spoke to David Yelland, former editor of the Sun newspaper, who now has a podcast – When it hits the fan – on the BBC.
We spoke to the Armenian ambassador to the UK – Varuzhan Nersesyan, and started by asking him what Azerbaijan’s intentions are in Nagorno-Karabakh.
We spoke to Austrian MEP, Andreas Schieder, who is a member of the UK Contact Group in the European Parliament.
Kate Eves, the chair of the Brook House inquiry speaks to us about the inquiry’s findings.
Matt Frei talks to Trevor Cooper, the head of a legal practice, which specialises in dog law and works closely with the RSPCA.