Jon Lee Anderson and Lyse Doucet talk to Oliver Bullough

An homage to Afghanistan and its people from two veteran foreign correspondents. Afghanistan has been beset by war and turmoil for decades, and yet its people do not give up hope. Foreign correspondent Jon Lee Anderson and the BBC’s chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet share their experiences of covering Afghanistan since the 1980s, the people they’ve met and stories they’ve heard, and why Afghanistan means so much to them.

Anderson is a seasoned war and international reporter. To Lose a War collects his writing from Afghanistan from the late 1980s. Doucet’s The Finest Hotel in Kabul is the story of the Inter-Continental Kabul hotel, a symbol of power and cosmopolitanism, and the people who work there. They talk to investigative journalist Oliver Bullough.