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🗓️ 2 June 2025
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Anthony Loyd and the legendary photographer Don McCullin have been to Syria to chronicle the destruction of Palmyra by Islamic State and to see what is changing under the new Syrian regime. Manveen sat down with them at Don’s house in Somerset to reflect on war, loss, friendship — and a remarkable career.
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Host: Manveen Rana.
Producers: Kizzy Bray and Edward Drummond.
Further reading: Don McCullin, 89, returns to Palmyra: ‘This time will be my last’
Clips: Reuters, NY Times.
Photo: Anthony Loyd/The Times.
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1:48.0 | Deep in the Syrian desert is a city of sandstone ruins, a breathtaking site of ancient temples and columns, amphitheaters and burial sites. |
1:55.0 | Palmyra, in its staggering beauty, has captured the imagination of travellers and invading armies for millennia. |
2:06.5 | There is 2,000 years of history defiantly standing here. So what does that do to me? It gives me strange, kind of spooky. |
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