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Episode 105: Ben Anderson

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2014

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Ben Anderson is a war journalist and documentary filmmaker. His latest book, The Interpreters, is available free from Vice. "You're surrounded by people who are so poor. Maybe their family members have already been killed. And they still can't leave. So compared to that, I can't really take the idea that I've suffered and that I need stop and go to a spa for a few days. I can't take that idea that seriously. Compared to them, it feels like I am leading an almost privileged existence." Thanks to TinyLetter and GoDaddy for sponsoring this week's episode. Show Notes: @BenJohnAnderson Ben Anderson on Vice [12:00] The Slaves of Dubai (Vice • Apr 2009) [15:30] "My Holidays in the Axis of Evil" (BBC • Feb 2003) [20:43] No Worse Enemy (Oneworld Publications • Oct 2012) [21:15] This is What Winning Looks Like (Vice • May 2013) [23:20] The Battle for Marjah (HBO • Feb 2010) [33:16] Vice on HBO [40:00] James Wood's New Yorker archive [42:40] Afghan Interpreters (Vice • Jul 2014) [42:40] The Interpreters (Vice • Aug 2014) [43:00] King Leopold's Ghost (Adam Hochschild • 1998) [54:30] Longform Podcast #1: Matthieu Aikins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:29.1

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1:14.3

Hey, welcome to the long form podcast. I'm Aaron Lamer here with my co-host, Evan Ratliff, and Max Linsky. Hey guys.

1:27.0

Hey, how the hell you guys doing? I'm doing good. Back from a week off the horn. Now I'm on the horn, blowing the horn, honking it.

1:34.9

Who you on the horn with?

1:36.6

This week I horned in Ben.

1:40.2

I don't even know what that means.

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