Foreign Correspondent: The Cost Of Living

A French photo-journalist tells how he survived 10 months as a hostage of Islamic State terrorists while five of his fellow captives were taken away and beheaded. Should ransoms have been paid to save their lives?

A year and a half after leaving the Media Watch chair, Jonathan Holmes returns to Foreign Correspondent – the program he led, as executive producer, when it launched in 1992 – to examine the agonising dilemma: whether governments should pay The Cost of Living.