Christina Lamb: “Life goes on even when it is war"

Christina Lamb is one of Britain’s leading foreign correspondents and a bestselling author. She gave the annual Tans lecture on 6 November 2017: ‘Never-Ending War and Finding Hope in the Darkest Places’. The Tans Lecture is organised every year to honour dr. J. Tans (1912-1993), the founding father of Maastricht University.

Interview & camera: Lennart Kleinschmidt

Edit: Sandu Ambrosi

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