Pranvera Shema Smith, who co-founded London’s Frontline Club, hopes to bring the kind of high-profile conversations usually reserved for the capital to audiences in Norfolk.

Her new On Front Line Norwich series launches tonight at The Forum, with a discussion examining the war in Afghanistan and the lessons that can be learned from Britain’s involvement.

The event, To Lose a War: Afghanistan Five Years On, will bring together former head of the British Army General Lord Richard Dannatt and acclaimed American war correspondent Jon Lee Anderson, who has reported from Afghanistan since the 1980s.

Former head of the British Army General Lord Richard Dannatt (Image: On The Front Line)

BBC journalist Louise Hulland will chair the discussion, with audience members invited to put their own questions to the speakers.

The event comes 25 years after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan and five years after the Taliban returned to power following the withdrawal of Western forces.

For Ms Shema Smith, whose journalism career began in the aftermath of the Kosovo war, Afghanistan is a subject with deeply personal significance.

In early 2001, she worked on Beneath the Veil, a Channel 4 documentary........

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