Gareth Jones: podcast appearances and interviews

Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones, born on 13 August 1905, was a Welsh journalist renowned for his reporting on the Soviet famine of 1930–1933. In March 1933, he became the first in the Western world to openly and definitively report the existence of the famine, including the Holodomor and the Asharshylyk, under his own name. Prior to this, he had anonymously reported on starvation in Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine in The Times in 1931. After his third visit to the Soviet Union, he issued a detailed press release in Berlin describing the widespread famine, a report that was contemporaneous with articles by other journalists. Jones's commitment to uncovering the truth extended beyond the Soviet Union; following a ban on his re-entry, he traveled to the Far East to document the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. His investigations were cut short when he was kidnapped and murdered in 1935 by Chinese bandits in Japanese-occupied Inner Mongolia. Some believe his death may have been orchestrated by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. His relentless pursuit of truth and fearless reporting were widely recognized, with former British prime minister David Lloyd George noting Jones's dedication to uncovering and reporting critical facts, irrespective of the risks involved.