An Author Special with Lindsey Hilsum, On Marie Colvin and War Journalism
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🗓️ 24 October 2018
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
By the time she died in Syria, in 2012, Marie Colvin was one of the world’s most renowned and courageous war correspondents. Recognised for her trademark eye patch - the consequence of a grenade in Sri Lanka, in 2001 - and revered as a journalist, with a 25 year tenure at The Sunday Times, Marie Colvin had a personal life as tumultuous as the war zones she covered. With the help of 300 of Marie’s journals, her friend and colleague, Channel 4’s International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum, has written a funny, frank and moving biography, In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, where she separates the myth from the woman: as brave as she is glamorous; as fierce as she is vulnerable. Ahead of the release of A Private War - a film of Marie’s life, with Rosamund Pike as Marie and Jamie Dornan as photographer, Paul Conroy - we talk to Lindsey about her friendship with Marie, the reality of being a war correspondent and how you keep mentally strong and sane, the bad news cycle, social media and MeToo.
Pre-order In Extremis, by Lindsey Hilsum (published 11th November by Penguin) here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1111214/in-extremis/9781784740931.html
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 75 of The Highlo, the weekly current affairs and pop culture podcast |
| 0:20.4 | brought to you by journalist Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. |
| 0:24.5 | Full disclosure, we are recording ahead of time. |
| 0:26.9 | In fact, we are speaking to you from two weeks in the past. |
| 0:31.2 | This is like one of those time capsules that Blue Peter presenters told kids to bury |
| 0:36.7 | in the ground on the day of the new millennium. |
| 0:39.3 | The year is 2018, the date is October 10th, no cars are flying as of yet. |
| 0:45.4 | Pandora, where will you be the moment all this is misattuned into this? |
| 0:49.0 | I think you're giving this a full sense of inflated importance, the two expost. |
| 0:53.7 | Well, if you're a super fan and listening the morning of this podcast's release, |
| 0:58.2 | I will be at Heckfield Place with my favourite two people. |
| 1:01.8 | I'd like to say I'll be kicking back, but I'll also be with a baby, so it'll be a sort of |
| 1:05.6 | active relaxing. |
| 1:06.8 | So a mental relaxation, not a physical one, but that's fine. |
| 1:10.8 | No, great with me. |
| 1:12.4 | I'm doing staycation in my first city. |
| 1:15.4 | I was going to go away, but I've decided to have a week off doing all this stuff in London. |
| 1:20.2 | I never get to do when I'm working all the time. |
| 1:22.6 | So I'll either be at the Frida Kahlo exhibition or in the middle of a three hour rambul |
| 1:27.8 | on the Heath or drinking a tinny on an open top bus tour of London while wearing a beefy |
| 1:32.5 | to hat. |
| 1:33.5 | So as this is o relic from the past, as Dolly dramatically describes it, instead of |
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