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Hello and welcome to Women with Balls, where I, Katie Balls, speak to today's trailblazers.

My guest today is the international editor for Channel 4 News. Having started her career as an aid worker in Latin America, she went on to become a journalist

and has now reported from six continents across three decades.

Her reporting often covers major conflicts and refugee movements, and she is reported from

Kosovo, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine and across the Middle East during the Arab Spring.

She was also the only English-speaking journalist in Rwanda when the genocide broke out in 1994. Across all her travels,

she has carried a book of poetry. Her third book, I brought the war with me, stories and poems

from the front line, is out now. My guest today is Lindsay Hilsen.

Thank you for coming on the podcast today, Lindsay. We appreciate it.

And we begin with the same question, which is, would you describe yours as a happy childhood?

Not that you have anything to really compare it to.

It was a happy childhood, but I didn't much like being a child.

I always thought that grownups had more fun because they seemed to have freedom. Now, when I look back now, I can see that I actually

had a very free childhood. I was brought up in Malvern, in Worcestershire. There was a lot of

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