IAF Literary Dinner, Monday, 20th April 2026
Please join us for our first Wakefield Press sponsored Literary Dinner for 2026.
Our guest speaker is Michael Delahaye, an independent television producer, occasional print journalist and a former BBC TV news reporter. In his latest book 'After the Fall: The battle to save independent media in the post-Soviet world' Michael traces the West's failed attempts to establish democracy and independent media in the former Soviet Union.
It is 1998. After twenty-five years as a BBC TV reporter and producer, Michael Delahaye is sent to Russia as part of a UK/US programme to develop independent journalism in the former Soviet Union. Their brief is to bring enlightenment to countries where the very concept of journalism has been unknown for seven decades; to support – sometimes help create from scratch – television stations that will be
independent, impartial and promote human rights. What they find is the rouble in freefall, state assets being sold off, black BMWs cruising the streets and an ex-KGB officer tipped for promotion in Yeltsin's administration ... Vladimir Putin. 'After the
Fall', a foot-soldier's story, charts Delahaye's realisation of the challenges, both cultural and political, of transition; how, as in Iraq and Afghanistan, the West has repeatedly over-estimated its power to recast other nations in its own image.
TICKETS: $40 members, $45 non members includes a choice of main course, a quiz and an entertaining speaker.
The Independent Arts Foundation thanks ticket buyers in advance for paying the Trybooking ticket and purchasing fees.
Our guest speaker is Michael Delahaye, an independent television producer, occasional print journalist and a former BBC TV news reporter. In his latest book 'After the Fall: The battle to save independent media in the post-Soviet world' Michael traces the West's failed attempts to establish democracy and independent media in the former Soviet Union.
It is 1998. After twenty-five years as a BBC TV reporter and producer, Michael Delahaye is sent to Russia as part of a UK/US programme to develop independent journalism in the former Soviet Union. Their brief is to bring enlightenment to countries where the very concept of journalism has been unknown for seven decades; to support – sometimes help create from scratch – television stations that will be
independent, impartial and promote human rights. What they find is the rouble in freefall, state assets being sold off, black BMWs cruising the streets and an ex-KGB officer tipped for promotion in Yeltsin's administration ... Vladimir Putin. 'After the
Fall', a foot-soldier's story, charts Delahaye's realisation of the challenges, both cultural and political, of transition; how, as in Iraq and Afghanistan, the West has repeatedly over-estimated its power to recast other nations in its own image.
TICKETS: $40 members, $45 non members includes a choice of main course, a quiz and an entertaining speaker.
The Independent Arts Foundation thanks ticket buyers in advance for paying the Trybooking ticket and purchasing fees.
Monday 20 April 2026 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM (UTC+09:30)
Location
The Maid
1 Magill Road, STEPNEY sa 5069
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IAF Literary Dinner, Monday, 20th April 2026
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