Tom Tugendhat: The pain and costs of our defeat in Afghanistan (E69) (01:02:45)
Tom Tugendhat is a British Member of Parliament and former Security Minister who served multiple tours in Afghanistan in various civilian and military capacities.In this exclusive interview, Tom speak...
Charlie Gammell: How I fell in love with Herat (E68) (00:47:13)
Charlie Gammell is a former British diplomat, author and historian who has worked extensively in Afghanistan and Iran. Speaking fluent Farsi and Pashto, with Herati and Khosti accents, Charlie reflect...
James Cowan: From Helmand to HALO - a British commander’s remarkable Afghanistan story (E67) (00:46:47)
James Cowan has seen Afghanistan at its most intense: the frozen, “medieval” Kabul he first stepped into after the Taliban’s fall in 2001, the brutal peak of the NATO campaign in Helmand, and the coun...
Al Carns: Afghanistan captures your soul (E66) (00:45:28)
In this profoundly personal and powerful interview, the UK's Minister for the Armed Forces, Al Carns MP, tells his story of Afghanistan from the eyes of a soldier who fought there. Al recounts his fir...
Fred Smith: Songs, diplomacy and falling in love with Uruzgan (E65) (00:57:39)
Fred Smith is an Australian diplomat, author, singer and songwriter who served alongside Australian forces in Uruzgan, as well as in Kabul. He didn’t just take his diplomatic skills to the country, bu...
Zalmay Khalilzad: My life, my story, my mission (From Bonn to Doha Talks) - Part 2 (E64) (00:57:17)
Born to a mid-level government official and an illiterate mother in Afghanistan’s northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, Zalmay Khalilzad has a remarkable and, in many ways, inspiring story. As a teenager, ...
Zalmay Khalilzad: My life, my story, my mission (From Kabul to the White House) - Part 1 (E63) (00:55:26)
Born to a mid-level government official and an illiterate mother in Afghanistan’s northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, Zalmay Khalilzad has a remarkable and, in many ways, inspiring story. As a teenager, ...
Alexander Matheou: Afghanistan's humanitarian emergency (E62) (00:50:33)
Alexander Matheou, Regional Director for Asia Pacific of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC). In this interview he unpacks the scale of Afghanistan’s humanitarian eme...
Taliban anniversary special: Four years of madness | Fereshta Abbasi (E61) (00:40:05)
On 15 August 2021, the Taliban captured Kabul, reclaiming power after 20 years of war. Despite promises to the contrary, they have imposed severe restrictions on the rights of women and girls, ethnic ...
Heidi Meyer: Time to recognise the Taliban? (E60) (01:00:11)
Heidi Meyer is a former NATO, Pentagon, and US State Department official with over a decade of experience in Afghanistan, including time spent working inside the Arg Palace. In this interview, she sha...
Nathalie Paarlberg: A cultural history of Afghanistan (E59) (00:48:56)
Nathalie Paarlberg is an art historian and the Chief Operating Officer at Turquoise Mountain. In this interview, she takes us on a journey through Afghanistan’s rich cultural history and art, as well ...
Mary Beard: Taliban, women and lessons from history (E58) (00:41:47)
In this exclusive and gripping interview, acclaimed historian Professor Mary Beard explores how the Taliban’s treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan reflects enduring patterns of patriarchal cont...
Pascal Maitre: Afghanistan through my lens (E57) (00:57:37)
Pascal Maitre is a world-renowned French photojournalist whose decades of work from around the world, particularly in Afghanistan, have produced some of the most iconic images of people, war, culture,...
David Tyson: A CIA spy's story in Afghanistan (Part 3) (E56) (00:42:04)
David Tyson is a retired CIA officer who served for 25 years, much of it in Central and South Asia. He cultivated relationships with anti-Taliban leaders and commanders in northern Afghanistan prior t...
David Tyson: A CIA spy's story in Afghanistan (Part 2) (E55) (00:30:18)
David Tyson is a retired CIA officer who served for 25 years, much of it in Central and South Asia. He cultivated relationships with anti-Taliban leaders and commanders in northern Afghanistan prior t...
David Tyson: A CIA spy's story in Afghanistan (Part 1) (E54) (00:37:25)
David Tyson is a retired CIA officer who served for 25 years, much of it in Central and South Asia. He cultivated relationships with anti-Taliban leaders and commanders in northern Afghanistan prior t...
Sir Rodric Braithwaite: Inside the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (Part 2) (E53) (00:46:45)
Sir Rodric Braithwaite is a former British diplomat and author who served as ambassador to the Soviet Union. He has written extensively on Russia and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, including in h...
Sir Rodric Braithwaite: Inside the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (Part 1) (E52) (00:36:01)
Sir Rodric Braithwaite is a former British diplomat and author who served as ambassador to the Soviet Union. He has written extensively on Russia and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, including in h...
Steve MacBeth: Inside Canada's Afghan war (E51) (01:08:25)
Steve MacBeth is a former soldier in the Canadian Army and the author of 'No Names, No Packdrill - An Oral History of Canadians at War in Afghanistan'. He served multiple tours in Afghanistan, and in ...
Gen. Joseph Votel: My lessons from Afghanistan (Part 2) (E50) (00:34:13)
General Joseph Votel is a retired U.S. Army four-star general and was the Commander of U.S. Central Command from 2016 to 2019. He led multiple operations in Afghanistan, beginning shortly after the 9/...
Gen. Joseph Votel: My lessons from Afghanistan (Part 1) (E49) (00:39:16)
General Joseph Votel is a retired U.S. Army four-star general and Commander of U.S. Central Command from 2016 t0 2019. He led multiple operations in Afghanistan, beginning shortly after the 9/11 attac...
Jonathan Lee: What is Afghanistan? (Part 3) Hazara Genocide (E48) (00:36:57)
Dr Jonathan L. Lee is a social and cultural historian and a leading authority on the history of Afghanistan. He lived in Afghanistan and travelled widely across the country for many years.He is the au...
Jonathan Lee: What is Afghanistan? (Part 2) Drinking Blood (E47) (00:38:49)
Dr Jonathan L. Lee is a social and cultural historian and a leading authority on the history of Afghanistan. He lived in Afghanistan and travelled widely across the country for many years.He is the au...
Jonathan Lee: What is Afghanistan? (Part 1) The Hippies (E46) (00:41:54)
Dr Jonathan L. Lee is a social and cultural historian and a leading authority on the history of Afghanistan. He lived in Afghanistan and travelled widely across the country for many years.He is the au...
Toby Harnden: Inside the CIA's first combat team in Afghanistan (Part 2) (E45) (00:38:53)
Toby Harnden is an award-winning journalist and author of 'Dead Men Risen' and 'First Casualty'.In this second part of the interview, we continue the story of the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif on 9th Novembe...
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