Three seasoned correspondents discuss the challenges of covering prolonged conflicts, in particular, the issue of “news fatigue”.
Chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet, international editor Jeremy Bowen and the BBC’s Quentin Sommerville talk about their experience of reporting in places like Bosnia, Afghanistan, and now, Ukraine - and how to keep you, the audience, interested and engaged…
They also discuss President Zelensky’s visit to the UN and the US and the latest developments in Ukraine’s counter-offensive.
Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko.
The producers were Arsenii Sokolov, Alix Pickles and Ivana Davidovic. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The series producers are Tim Walklate and Daniel Wittenberg. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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TOPICS:
00:05 - "News fatigue" and Ukraine
02:51 - How to cover a war
17:50 - Listener questions
18:53 - Zelensky's US visit and UNGA
23:34 - Counter-offensive update
