Kym Staton & Soraya Lennie on McBride & Brennan - 29 July 2023

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Kym Staton is an Australian filmmaker, poet, and singer-songwriter. He is Director of "THE TRUST FALL: JULIAN ASSANGE", a new documentary about and in support of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. The film has been two years in the making and its global premiere is booked for Melbourne on 30 July 2023.

GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Soraya Lennie is an Australian-Iranian investigative reporter. From 2010, Soraya was based in the Middle East, including Iran, Qatar and Turkey and have worked for numerous international organisations including Al Jazeera English, Middle East Eye, PBS, Euronews, CNN, BBC and TRT World. She lived in Afghanistan after the fall of the government and the Taliban takeover. In addition, Soraya is the author of the non-fiction book Crooked Alleys: Deliverance and Despair in Iran (HURST, 2021). She is now based in Lisbon, Portugal.