7 October 2022
Episode 168
30 minutes
Photo: Toronto Star
The Canadian journalist sits down with Emma Nelson to discuss her career as a war correspondent, being abducted on assignment in Afghanistan and how this trauma refuelled her mission to tell the stories of those caught in conflict.
7 October 2022
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