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Eventful Lives Podcast

#201. SAS War Correspondent on Front Line - Damien Lewis

Eventful Lives Podcast

Dodge Woodall

Eventful, True Crime, Risk, Interviews, Crime, Events, Entrepreneurship, Festivals, Sports, Life Story, Entrepreneur, Roger Woodall, Start Ups, Society & Culture, Military, Business

5 โ€ข 857 Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 3 January 2024

โฑ๏ธ 95 minutes

๐Ÿงพ๏ธ Download transcript

Summary

Damien Lewis is a war correspondent and film-maker that has spent the last 20 years in the world's most hostile and war torn environments.


An award winning author of 30+ books and producing 20 films; Damien shares his story of life on the frontline and how Special Forces defended against the Taliban & Al-Qaeda.


This is The Eventful Life of Mr Damien Lewis.


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0:00.0

The more you go into war zones, the more you realise mad, crazy stuff happens for reasons which you can almost not fathom.

0:08.0

I was more driven by what war does to people.

0:11.0

It seems to me that your camera and your film footage is worth more than your life at times.

0:17.0

You deconstruct the normal human reactions to other human beings in suffering to such a degree you can do your job.

0:23.6

It's face to face and intense like nothing else you can imagine.

0:27.6

I can tell you stories and make your blood freeze.

0:29.6

Two dozen British and American elite forces guys against 600 diehard, Archive and Taliban.

0:35.6

Victor Boot was the second most wanted man after Osama been laden at the time.

0:39.3

In October,

0:40.3

in 1943, we hijacked a train to a Italian concentration camp,

0:44.3

rescued 180 of the people held in that concentration camp,

0:47.3

loaded the back aboard the train,

0:49.3

and steamed back to Allied lines.

0:51.3

Wow.

0:53.3

Wow.

1:05.3

Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast.

1:09.9

I'm your host Dodge and I'm the founder of Bournemouth Sevens, the world's largest sports and music festival.

1:11.9

On this podcast, I speak to fascinating people who have all lived eventful lives.

1:17.1

If you haven't already, do us a favour, press the follow button and check us out at Dodge Woodall on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, where we've now had over 80 million views.

1:30.1

Damien Lewis is a war correspondent and filmmaker that has spent the last 20 years in the

1:35.1

world's most hostile and war-torn environments. An award-winning author of 30 plus books and

1:40.1

producing 20 films, Damien shares his story on life on the front line and how special

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