821 Expert On Board; Foreign Correspondent Lyse Doucet
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
4.5 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
An Easter Island-based travel writer and lecturer lets us in on what life is like on the cruise-ship circuit. Then journalist Lyse Doucet recounts her career as the BBC's chief international correspondent and delves into the issues her profession grapples with today.
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| 0:00.0 | As the chief international correspondent for the BBC, |
| 0:05.2 | Lise Doucette has been in the front lines of major world conflict zones for the past 40 years. |
| 0:11.0 | Coming up on Travel with Rick Steves, she shares the challenges journalists are facing today |
| 0:15.6 | and why we need honest reporting now more than ever. |
| 0:19.6 | But I still really absolutely fundamentally believe |
| 0:23.5 | that there is no alternative to on the ground |
| 0:27.1 | in the heat and dust face-to-face journalism. |
| 0:31.2 | James Grant Peterkin is an expert on the culture and language of Easter Island. |
| 0:35.5 | He delivers tales from the South Pacific on cruise ships, |
| 0:38.3 | and suggests if you have an expertise people would enjoy hearing about, |
| 0:42.3 | you too could be in demand as a cruise ship guest lecturer. |
| 0:46.3 | It's a very unusual, very eclectic group of people. |
| 0:49.3 | Hear how to get the most out of a sea cruise |
| 0:51.3 | and a heart to heart with one of today's most accomplished international |
| 0:54.3 | reporters. |
| 0:55.3 | It's just ahead on Travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:00.3 | If you book a South Pacific cruise from Chile to Easter Island, you might be joined by one of |
| 1:05.6 | today's foremost experts on the island and the Rappanui culture. |
| 1:09.8 | In just a minute, James Grant-Peterkin tells us |
| 1:12.2 | about working the cruise ship lecture circuit. And one of today's most respected journalists is back |
| 1:17.7 | with us on Travel with Rick Steves, to tell us what it takes to work as an international correspondent. |
| 1:23.7 | In just a bit, Lee Doucette brings us a personal look at global news reporting |
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