This event will launch the book "Nossa Correspondente Informa: Notícias da ditadura brasileira na BBC de Londres (1973-1985)" with the presence of the author Jan Rocha, who will be in conversation with the journalist Ali Rocha and with Professor David Treece (King's College London). The book is in Portuguese but the event will be in English.

This event will take place in the River Room at King's College London.

About the speakers

Jan Rocha (author)

Jan Rocha is a journalist and author. She has lived in Brazil for over 50 years. From 1973 to the 1990s she was a reporter for the BBC World Service, covering Brazil and other South American countries. Between 1984 and 1994, she was correspondent for The Guardian newspaper. She is the author of Brazil in Focus, Murder in the Rainforest, Cutting the Wire (with Sue Branford), and Brazil Inside Out (with Francis McDonagh). She was coordinator of the Rainforest Journalism Fund for the Pulitzer Center from 2018 to 2020.

Ali Rocha (journalist)

Ali Rocha is a TV news and documentary producer. She has worked with the BBC, Channel 4, ITN, Al Jazeera English and other major international broadcasters covering news stories in Brazil for nearly 20 years and has produced documentaries on human rights issues for charities and NGOs such as Amnesty International and Christian Aid. In the UK she's a contributor to Latin America Bureau (LAB) and helps to run Brazil Matters, a platform that organises events and demonstrations to raise international awareness of Brazilian issues and supports activists on the ground.

Professor David Treece

David Treece is Camoens Professor of Portuguese at King’s College London, where he directed the Centre for the Study of Brazilian Culture and Society from 1996 to 2010. He is the author of Exiles, Allies, Rebels: Brazil’s Indianist Movement, Indigenist Politics, and the Imperial Nation-State (2000) and Brazilian Jive: From Samba to Bossa and Rap (2013). Currently he is writing a book on the topic of "Music and anti-racism in contemporary Brazil", with the support of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.