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An Author Special with Lindsey Hilsum, On Marie Colvin and War Journalism

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By the time she died in Syria, in 2012, Marie Colvin was one of the world’s most renowned and courageous war correspondents. Recognised for her trademark eye patch - the consequence of a grenade in Sri Lanka, in 2001 - and revered as a journalist, with a 25 year tenure at The Sunday Times, Marie Colvin had a personal life as tumultuous as the war zones she covered. With the help of 300 of Marie’s journals, her friend and colleague, Channel 4’s International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum, has written a funny, frank and moving biography, In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, where she separates the myth from the woman: as brave as she is glamorous; as fierce as she is vulnerable. Ahead of the release of A Private War - a film of Marie’s life, with Rosamund Pike as Marie and Jamie Dornan as photographer, Paul Conroy - we talk to Lindsey about her friendship with Marie, the reality of being a war correspondent and how you keep mentally strong and sane, the bad news cycle, social media and MeToo.


Pre-order In Extremis, by Lindsey Hilsum (published 11th November by Penguin) here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1111214/in-extremis/9781784740931.html


Dopesick, by Beth Macy https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Beth-Macy/Dopesick--Dealers-Doctors-and-the-Drug-Company-that-Addicted-America/22704243


Tom Daley’s Desert Island Discs https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0blhfpj


Witness for the Prosecution, an Agatha Christie play on London’s Southbank https://www.southbanklondon.com/Witness-for-the-Prosecution


How Goop’s haters made Gwyneth Paltrow’s Company worth $250 million - by Taffy Brodesser-Akner for The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/magazine/big-business-gwyneth-paltrow-wellness.html


Recommended apps:

Deliveries: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/deliveries-a-package-tracker/id290986013?mt=8


Gone For Good: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/gone-for-good/id1055619157?mt=8


Treatwell: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/treatwell-nails-hair-wax/id814443140?mt=8


Taskrabbit: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/taskrabbit-chores-done-today/id374165361?mt=8


Blythe Danner on The Goop Podcast:

https://goop.com/work/parenthood/gwyneth-x-blythe-on-mothers-and-daughters/


Simon Cowell on Desert Island Discs:

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/desert-island-discs-archive-2005-2011/id435713614?mt=2&i=1000368646169


Sara Pascoe on theatre:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=enoj6OK9j0U


Information on Lips choir:



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By the time she died in Syria, in 2012, Marie Colvin was one of the world’s most renowned and courageous war correspondents. Recognised for her trademark eye patch - the consequence of a grenade in Sri Lanka, in 2001 - and revered as a journalist, with a 25 year tenure at The Sunday Times, Marie Colvin had a personal life as tumultuous as the war zones she covered. With the help of 300 of Marie’s journals, her friend and colleague, Channel 4’s International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum, has written a funny, frank and moving biography, In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, where she separates the myth from the woman: as brave as she is glamorous; as fierce as she is vulnerable. Ahead of the release of A Private War - a film of Marie’s life, with Rosamund Pike as Marie and Jamie Dornan as photographer, Paul Conroy - we talk to Lindsey about her friendship with Marie, the reality of being a war correspondent and how you keep mentally strong and sane, the bad news cycle, social media and MeToo.


Pre-order In Extremis, by Lindsey Hilsum (published 11th November by Penguin) here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1111214/in-extremis/9781784740931.html


Dopesick, by Beth Macy https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Beth-Macy/Dopesick--Dealers-Doctors-and-the-Drug-Company-that-Addicted-America/22704243


Tom Daley’s Desert Island Discs https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0blhfpj


Witness for the Prosecution, an Agatha Christie play on London’s Southbank https://www.southbanklondon.com/Witness-for-the-Prosecution


How Goop’s haters made Gwyneth Paltrow’s Company worth $250 million - by Taffy Brodesser-Akner for The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/magazine/big-business-gwyneth-paltrow-wellness.html


Recommended apps:

Deliveries: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/deliveries-a-package-tracker/id290986013?mt=8


Gone For Good: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/gone-for-good/id1055619157?mt=8


Treatwell: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/treatwell-nails-hair-wax/id814443140?mt=8


Taskrabbit: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/taskrabbit-chores-done-today/id374165361?mt=8


Blythe Danner on The Goop Podcast:

https://goop.com/work/parenthood/gwyneth-x-blythe-on-mothers-and-daughters/


Simon Cowell on Desert Island Discs:

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/desert-island-discs-archive-2005-2011/id435713614?mt=2&i=1000368646169


Sara Pascoe on theatre:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=enoj6OK9j0U


Information on Lips choir:



Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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