Sunday Feature: Martha Gellhorn

A series of programmes exploring the ideas of great writers in their own words - as archive recordings in which they articulate their approach interweave with the thoughts of contemporary writers, academics and activists. In this first episode we focus on the words of Martha Gellhorn, one of the most prescient and insightful journalists of the 20th-century. During her 60-year career, Gellhorn's reporting often focused on the `sufferers of history" - those who find themselves caught up in the decisions of leaders from which they neither have the influence nor means to extricate themselves. Through her ideas contemporary writers and journalists reflect on modern reporting - on capturing truth amidst the chaos of conflict, on the responsibility of the reporter, on memory, objectivity and the failures of political imagination. Featuring contributions from Patrick Cockburn, Rosie Boycott, John Pilger, Lindsey Hilsum and others this programme explores how her approach might inform the way we document the world we live in