Richard Lindley is a veteran British television journalist who for many years worked for news and current affairs programmes at the BBC and ITV, reporting the world from Cape Horn to Alaska, from Tristan da Cunha to Kathmandu.

In Africa he covered conflicts in Angola, Nigeria and Zimbabwe, and in the Far East he reported frequently from Vietnam during the war, and from Cambodia before and after the Khmer Rouge reign of terror.

In the Middle East he covered both the Six Day War of 1967 and the October War of 1973 – the first from Israel, the second from Egypt - and he returned many times afterwards to Israel and the occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank.

In Iran he reported the fall of the Shah and the establishment of the Islamic Republic. Covering the war between Iran and Iraq he became the first western television journalist to interview the former President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein.

In the UK he reported on many educational issues, including comprehensive schools, university education and the vocational alternatives to academic courses. As presenter of the BBC’s flagship Panorama programme he interviewed the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during the Falklands War.

He has written two books about television journalism: Panorama – 50 years of Pride and Paranoia (2002), and And Finally…? The News from ITN (2005).

A former President of The Media Society, which has a membership drawn from both old and new media, he has most recently served as Chairman of Voice of the Listener and Viewer, a national voluntary organisation striving to uphold quality radio and television programme standards in a fast-changing digital world.