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And I was serious with her. You know, I was serious with her. You know, I said, why on the earth have you gone back in?

You already did a great story and she said

Lindsay it's the worst thing we've ever seen how I said I know but what's your

exit strategy she said well that's just it I don't have one we're working on it now and she was killed a few hours later.

You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines. Here are your hosts, Matthew Galt and And I'm Caitley Rogers.

War Correspondents are a rare breed. They are extraordinary people who risk life and limb

to keep the world informed and shed light

on the darkest places in the world.

Increasingly, it's a lethal profession.

One of the best in business was Marie Colvin.

Colvin covered Chechnya, East Timor, Kosovo in the Middle East.

She interviewed Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi and received pearls as a gift from Yasser Arafat.

Here to tell us about her extraordinary life is her friend and colleague Lindsay Hillsome.

Hillsome is the international editor for Channel 4 News in Britain, and Colvin's life is the subject of her new book in extremis.

Lindsay thank you so much for joining us.

It's a pleasure.

To start off can you tell us about the title what does it mean to be in extremis?

Well, the title comes from something Marie wrote. She wrote,

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