Chloe Hadjimatheou

Mar 18, 2025 | tortoisemedia.com | Nina Kuryata |Chloe Hadjimatheou

“We’ll be talking about land. A lot of land is a lot different than it was before the war, as you know.” Donald Trump, speaking before a phone call he plans to have with Vladimir Putin today. So what? He was essentially repeating Putin’s line that ceasefire talks should be based on the “reality on the ground” – ie on the illegal annexation of nearly 20 per cent of Ukraine.

Mar 11, 2025 | tortoisemedia.com | Chloe Hadjimatheou

Syria’s new government has signed an historic deal with the biggest faction in the country, the Kurdish-led SDF, which oversees the northeast and is backed by the US. So what? Most of Syria is now under the government’s control, as part of an agreement that also secures new constitutional rights for the country’s Kurdish minority. Syria’s leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has been lobbying the West to lift sanctions.

Mar 6, 2025 | tortoisemedia.com | Basia Cummings |Gary Marshall |Rebecca Moore |Chloe Hadjimatheou |Hannah Varrall

series Lucky Boy 2h 59 mins • 5 Episodes Gareth’s whole life has been defined by a relationship he had 35 years ago when, as a 14-year-old schoolboy, he fell in love with an attractive young teacher at his school. He spent most afternoons in her bedroom and thought he was the luckiest boy in the world. But when she walked out of his life everything started to unravel. Lucky Boy is a new four-part series in which Chloe Hadjimatheou asks who gets to be a perpetrator and a victim.

Mar 6, 2025 | tortoisemedia.com | Chloe Hadjimatheou

When he was 14, he fell in love with a teacher. After she walked out of his life everything started to unravel Tortoise’s new investigative series asks who gets to be a perpetrator and a victim. Listen to Lucky Boy now. It was a warm July evening in 1988 when Gareth* went to the pub in Finchley with his teacher, Miss Bowen. It was end of year staff drinks and the back bar was full of teachers from Christ’s College secondary school.

Dec 9, 2024 | tortoisemedia.com | Chloe Hadjimatheou

SENSEMAKER Our planet #MiddleEast Prisoner releases bring joy, but also stories of horror As the Assad regime relinquishes control of Syria, hundreds of people have been flooding to its prisons hoping to find their loved ones. So what? Most Syrians know – or know of – someone jailed by their departed dictator. A complex security apparatus that arrested, imprisoned, tortured and executed anyone suspected of disloyalty was key to maintaining regime control.