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🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 126 minutes
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0:00.0 | I've rolled out uni because I want to live at home. |
0:02.5 | I've ruled out uni because I want to earn money. |
0:05.7 | I've ruled out uni because of my grades. |
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0:23.6 | future with the degree you didn't think was possible. The Open University. The future is open. |
0:36.3 | You've been covering, I'm reporting on hot wars yep your whole life how many how many wars have you |
0:43.6 | been embedded in reporting 16 i believe i think 16 yeah i think 16 at this point what out of all the |
0:51.2 | wars you've been in what was the most dangerous one Chechnya Chechnya Chechnya |
0:55.3 | Chechnya Chechnya Chechnya was horrifying um I went it was a 1995 there was two of those right |
1:02.8 | there was two I was there in the first one um and I went for the first or second story I did for the New York Times Magazine. |
1:11.9 | And I went to try to find out what had happened with a rather prominent American disaster relief expert who had, he had been to 50 war zones. |
1:21.3 | And he had gone to Chechnya and he had called Chechnya the scariest place he'd ever been. |
1:26.6 | He went back and within 24 hours of him |
1:29.0 | going back, he disappeared. He vanished. So I went to try to find out what had happened to him, |
1:34.2 | which was kind of foolhardy. And it was really, really terrifying. The one way I described how kind of terrifying it was, |
1:47.2 | I was only there for three weeks, but we were camping out and burnt out buildings. I didn't |
1:54.1 | shower for three weeks. I got back to Moscow, and I took my first shower in three weeks. I |
2:00.3 | looked in the mirror afterwards, |
2:01.9 | and I had this little shock of white hair. |
2:03.9 | It was much more impressive when I was younger, |
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