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49. Stop Tanks With Books

Battleground

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4.6703 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Joining Saul for this week's Big Interview is award winning British photographer Mark Neville. He emotionally describes his personal experience of the war as a resident of Ukraine in Kyiv, his recent book project - Stop Tanks With Books - released a matter of days before the full scale invasion, and his work helping those most in need, with the charity - postcode Ukraine. If you would like to know more about Mark's charity or help out with donations, you can find more information at www.postcodeukraine.com If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - [email protected] Producer: James Hodgson Twitter: @PodBattleground Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Hello and welcome to the Battleground Ukraine's big interview with me, Saul David.

0:47.3

This week we're talking to award-winning British artists and photographer Mark Neville,

0:51.6

who has been documenting life in Ukraine since 2015.

0:55.5

He currently lives in Kiev and recently set up a charity Postcode Ukraine with Ukrainian

1:00.7

writer Tanya Logachewa to support communities affected by the war.

1:09.6

So Mark, tell me about your connection to Ukraine. How did that all come about?

1:14.7

Well, Saul, I initially became aware of Ukraine through a different project.

1:19.8

So I was an official war artist for the British government, I guess, in Helmut Afghanistan in 2012, 2011, 2012. And I came back

1:31.5

actually with post-traumatic stress disorder. I was there embedded, I guess is the term,

1:37.7

with 16 Air Assort Brigade, the paratroopers, for about three months. And I came back quite heavily disturbed, I would say. And I refused to admit

1:48.8

I had a problem with it with PTSD until about six months when all my friends were telling me,

1:54.7

listen, Mark, you're not the same person as you were before. You're behaving quite erratically,

2:00.2

irrationally, and go and do something about it,

2:04.1

why don't you?

2:04.8

In a lovely way, they said.

2:06.7

And so I realised at that point, you know, that I really had to.

2:11.3

And I sought professional help, counselling.

2:14.7

I was recommended certraline, which is a kind of drug that they use to treat a lot of

2:19.7

troops, returning from war zones and antidepressant, and both worked very well, I have to say in my

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