Hi, it's Arthur here. Today we're bringing you the highlights of a Doomsday Watch

Patreon special event with the Estimable Journalist John Sweeney. Over the weekend,

we held a live Zoom with our Patreon supporters discussing John's experiences,

reporting from Kiev and his recent trip to the front line of Ukraine's fight against the

Russian invasion up near the city of Bakhmoot. If you'd like to hear live events like this in

the future, search Doomsday Watch Patreon to find out how to support this podcast. Your help

keeps us going. Thank you. I'm also delighted to say this support is helping us to create our new

season, a ten-part documentary series coming this autumn, interrogating our perilous times.

As we gear up for this, we want to know what you think about the show,

so we're running a listener survey, the links in the show notes,

fill it in and you're in with the chance of winning a Doomsday Watch t-shirt.

Now, over to Mr. Sweeney.

John, lovely to see you as always, the orange hat is still tucked onto the head,

so that suggests that your head is still there. That's excellent.

Show and tell. Tell us where you are. I'm in Kiev, which is, frankly,

after the most beautiful and exciting city in the world to live in right now.

And I'm not that old, but I've read the Springgreens, Diaries, Mark and Mugridge,

the London Blitz in 1940, and they're laughing, and they're dancing, and they wanted to go drinking,

and they're also standing up to this evil monster out of Hitler. And being in Kiev right now

feels like being in London 1940, or West Berlin, when the carrier wrote the spy came in from the

Coles. It feels not just like you're living in a beautiful city. You're living in a city that's

fighting for democracy, the freedom, the free speech is beautiful. Amazing. Love it. I love it here.

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