Episode Twenty Six - Jeremy Bowen

In this episode of This is a Token, Alex takes a look at the watch collection of his good friend and neighbour, Jeremy Bowen.

Jeremy describes the importance of timing to the absolute second in his job as War Correspondent, and talks of the privilege he feels in witnessing and reporting on history first hand - however upsetting it may be.

Hear how a Breitling watch that had survived conflict in Iraq was lost to an elderly watchmaker, and how his BBC-issued ‘Wristlet Stopwatch’ has often garnered the interest of watch enthusiasts on Twitter!

Jeremy speaking of his Father Gareth’s reporting of the Aberfan Disaster here

Jeremy’s Awards

Jeremy’s Books

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Illustration by Connie Bella Monroe
Edited by Emily Sandford
Music by Daniel Patrick Cohen