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Podcast: The Shift with Sam Baker
Episode: Lyse Doucet – my extraordinary 40 years on the frontline
Description: My guest today is the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent, Lyse Doucet.
Since starting work at the corporation almost forty years ago, Lyse has covered all the major wars in the Middle East, reporting from Afghanistan Iraq Iran Jordan Israel Pakistan Egypt Libya and most recently Gaza. And that’s before we get started on the rest of the world. Sudan. The tsunami in Indonesia. And you may well remember her reporting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 from a rooftop in Kyiv.
When we spoke Lyse had rece...