Summary: When Christina Lamb was 21, she set off to Peshawar to cover the war in Afghanistan, armed with a suitcase full of dog-eared novels and absolutely no experience. Today Christina is one of the most highly regarded foreign correspondents in the world, respected for her courageous and intensely human observations. Christina shares her insights on one of the world’s most intractable conflicts in her latest work Farewell Kabul: How the West Ignored Pakistan and Lost Afghanistan. She speaks to Paola Totaro.
