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Foreign correspondent Lindsey Hilsum - newly returned from reporting from the trenches in Ukraine - joins Roger McGough to discuss whether poetry can tell us something about war that TV and news reporting can't.

Together they make a selection from our listeners' requests for poetry about war and Lindsey shares some of the poems that have accompanied her through her years of reporting from war zones. Her choices include poems by Ilya Kaminsky, Fiona Benson, Warsan Shire, WB Yeats, Siegfried Sassoon, AE Housman, WH Auden and Wis艂awa Szymborska, And Roger shares one of his own poems, inspired by his childhood experiences of sheltering with his parents in the bomb shelter during the bombing of Liverpool.

Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News' International Editor. Her book, In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, won the 2019 James Tait Black Prize for biography Recently she has reported the war in Ukraine, and the aftermath of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. She has covered the major conflicts and refugee movements of the past three decades, including Syria, Mali, Iraq, and Kosovo and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. From 2006-8 she was based in China, and in 1994 was the only English-speaking foreign correspondent in Rwanda as the genocide started. She has won many awards, including the Royal Television Society Journalist of the Year and the Royal Geographical Society Patron鈥檚 Medal. She contributes regularly to newspapers and literary magazines. Her first book was Sandstorm; Libya in the Time of Revolution.

Produced in Bristol by Mair Bosworth for 大象传媒 Audio