2026-10-14
2 分钟Hi, it's Lauren Laverne and this is Desert Island Discs Postcards, a selection
of some of our most memorable moments from the thousands of people we've cast away to our imaginary desert island.
Today's postcard reaches you from far-flung shores.
The BBC's chief international correspondent, Lise Doucette,
has reported from many war-torn countries, including Afghanistan, Syria, Iran and Iraq.
But when she spoke to me in 2022, she told me that she'd rather not be known as a war correspondent.
I don't want to be defined by war.
Everyone I know who's lived in war wants nothing more than to get out of war.
And I also don't want to think that my life of travel...
Has been a life of going from one conflict to the other.
It's been a life of ups and downs, of light and dark, of humour and happiness.
And so I don't want to be defined by that horrible three-letter word, war.
There's another important distinction that you make that perhaps follows that first idea.
And that's your thought that international news is no longer foreign.
That's important to you.
Tell me more about that.
Where is the Syrian story or the Afghan story or the Iraqi story?
It's down our street and the families who've moved in.
It's in our schools where children of different ancestries all learn together.
I always say about these stories of our time that...