Ben Brown joined the BBC TV News in 1988 and was a Foreign Aairs Correspondent until 1991, reporting the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Gulf War, from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
He was appointed Moscow Correspondent in 1991, where he witnessed the final collapse of Communism and the fall of Mikhail Gorbachev.
In 1993, and the following year he was in Chechnya for the start of the civil war. His coverage of that conflict won him several international prizes, including the Bayeux War Correspondent of the Year Award and the Golden Nymph Award from the Monte-Carlo Television Festival.
In January 1995, Brown resumed his roving role as a foreign correspondent, based in London. He covered the break-up of Yugoslavia extensively, reporting from Bosnia – Herzegovina, Croatia and Kosovo where his stories helped to secure several awards for the BBC, including a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) award. Reporting House is screening 30 of the reports he made during his trips to Kosovo from 1998-2000. To produce these TV Reports, Ben and Vaughan worked with translators and local producers such as Fisnik Abrashi, Belma Bajrami, Safet Gashi, Visar Kryeziu & Jeta Xharra.