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Podcast: Battling with Business
Episode: Episode 47- The Gardener of Lashkar Gar - with Defence Editor of The Times, Larisa Brown
Description: In this episode we have the privilege to be joined by the award winning journalist and Defence Editor of 'The Times', Larisa Brown. We discuss her new book The Gardener of Lashkar Gah: The Afghans who risked everything to fight the Taliban.
This book explores the courage of the people of Afghanistan who risked everything to work with British Soldiers in the fight against the Taliban. Larisa tells the story of Shaista Gull, a kind man who build a beautiful garden inside the British HQ in Helmand Province and then his fight to get his family to saf...