Starting as a freelance reporter in Viet Nam, Julian Manyon was a journalist specialising in international stories for more than forty years. After working in BBC radio and television he joined Thames Television’s TV Eye programme, and went on to become a long-serving foreign correspondent for ITN. Julian has won numerous awards for his work including two BAFTAs, three Royal Television Society Awards, two Monte Carlo awards and two prizes at the New York Television Festival. He has contributed numerous articles to The Spectator magazine.

He is the author of The Fall of Saigon published in 1975, and Kidnapped by the Junta: Inside Argentina’s War with Britain and Itself, an account of his time in Buenos Aires reporting on the Falklands War, published by Icon Books in 2022.