Lyse Doucet | Afghanistan attempted assassination, Syria under siege and dressing up as a man

Lyse Doucet OBE is the BBC's Chief International Correspondent and Senior Presenter.

Show Notes

We talk about Lyse’s extensive reporting in Syria, particularly her time in besieged Yarmouk where children told Lyse they had to eat boiled grass in order to survive, being present during the attempted assassination of Hamid Karzai, the then Afghan President and growing up in New Brunswick, Canada.

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