Ukraine Special Episode: John Sweeney on four years of war and heroism

About this episode

John Sweeney discusses four years of Russia's war on Ukraine, highlighting heroism and tragedy.

John Sweeney, veteran war correspondent - the man in the orange hat - spoke to me about four years of Russia's war on Ukraine, the heroism, the tragedy and the importance of it for all of us. If you would like to support this podcast please consider taking out a paid subscription to my Substack arthursnell.substack.com or if you don't want the hassle of a subscription you can buy me a coffee! ko-fi.com/snellarthur If you want to buy any of the books talked about in this show, please support independent bookshops by using Bookshop.org with this link: ⁠https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/behindthelines⁠ Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Arthur Snell

Guest: John Sweeney

Topics covered

• Ukraine War
• Heroism
• War Correspondence
• Russia
• Tragedy
• Journalism

Keywords

• Ukraine
• Russia
• war
• heroism
• journalism
• John Sweeney
• Arthur Snell

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Substack, ko-fi, Bookshop.org

Places: Ukraine, Russia

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