Lindsey Hilsum, journalist

Lindsey Hilsum is a multi-award-winning journalist who has been a foreign correspondent for the past four decades. She has been Channel 4’s international editor for the past 22 years and has reported on every continent except Antarctica.

After studying French and Spanish at University, she worked as an aid worker in Mexico and Kenya before becoming the East Africa stringer for the BBC World Service.

After realising her calling was journalism she devoted her career to covering events around the world including the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the 2003/4 war in Iraq.

She also spent two years in Beijing as the China correspondent for Channel 4 News.

Among her many awards for her work, she has been named Amnesty International Journalist of the Year, RTS Specialist Journalist of the Year and has received the Charles Wheeler Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to broadcast journalism. She is also the author of three books.

When she is not abroad reporting, Lindsey lives in London.

Presenter: Lauren Laverne

Producer: Sarah Taylor

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DISC ONE: Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen

DISC TWO: Carey - Joni Mitchell

DISC THREE: Shauri Yako - Orchestra Super Mazembe

DISC FOUR: Summertime - Billie Holiday and her Orchestra

DISC FIVE: Hurricane - Bob Dylan

DISC SIX: The Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto (Arr. for Violin & Chinese Orchestra): Andante cantabile "Transformation" Composed by He Zhanhao and Chen Gang and performed by Lü Siqing and the Taipei Orchestra, conducted by Yiu-kwong Chung

DISC SEVEN: Piece of My Heart - Big Brother and the Holding Company and Janis Joplin

DISC EIGHT: Who Knows Where the Time Goes - Fairport Convention

BOOK CHOICE: Collected Poems by W H Auden

LUXURY ITEM: A Tang Dynasty horse

CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Carey - Joni Mitchell