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 Dr John Park, director of the Korea Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, and an expert on North Korea’s military capabilities and nuclear ambitions.
A new biography of SpaceX founder Elon Musk sparked outrage when it claimed the tycoon had deliberately switched off Ukrainian access to the Starlink satellite network around the Crimean coast last autumn, stopping them from attacking a Russian naval base.
We spoke to Tommaso Della Longa, a spokesman for the IFRC, the umbrella body for Red Cross and Red Crescent societies.
We spoke to Conservative MP and former party leader, Iain Duncan Smith, who is a long-time critic of China’s activities in the UK, and has been sanctioned by the Beijing government.
We spoke to Chris Doyle, Director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, and Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed who’s written extensively about Saudi Arabia.
Earlier we spoke to Antoinette Sandbach, the former MP for Eddisbury, who in 2009, well before Lucy Letby worked there, herself suffered the loss of a baby at the Countess of Chester hospital.
We spoke to Paul Whiteing, Chief Executive of the patient group ‘Action against Medical Accidents’ and Lottie King who runs the charity Leo’s, which supports families with children in neonatal care.
If all else fails ‘we are going into Niger’ – that was the message from a West African bloc of nations today.
Matt is joined now by Lord Grade, former chair of the BBC’s board of governors. He was also chief executive of Channel 4.
We are joined by Edward Struzik, a fellow at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, Queen’s University, Canada, and the author of Dark Days at Noon: The Future of Fire.
We spoke to Greg Swenson, chairman of the UK chapter of Republicans Overseas.
We spoke to Jill Wine-Banks, a lawyer who served as one of the special prosecutors during the Watergate scandal.
Donald Trump now faces four separate trials involving dozens of criminal charges – and prosecutors want court cases to begin around the same time as the 2024 Presidential election campaign kicks off in earnest.
We spoke to journalist and author Tim Marshall, whose latest book, ‘The Future of Geography’, examines the renewed space race for the Moon and beyond.
We spoke to Alice Lee, chair of Maui County Council.