Jack Laurence

Just the only thing I'm worried about is the noise of the bird.

That's all.

It's so funny you should say that, because it's one of the things that literally caught my ear watching that as well.

For everyone listening, of course, your most recent documentary, you went to cover the Ukrainian-Russian war, which we'll sort of talk about later on.

But yeah, while you're watching that, there's like bombs dropping, gunfire, and just birdsong, which literally, that's one of the things that really caught my attention, because you don't expect that.

It's one of those strange contradictions of war.

Nature doesn't stop.

Birds keep singing even when humans are destroying each other.

Sean had captured that perfectly in his latest documentary where, again, he was on the front lines of another war, recording the sounds of songbirds on the front lines while shells fell in the distance.

But we'll talk more about Ukraine later.

Because yes, even after he was kidnapped and managed to survive that, he would go back to war.

So by this stage, Sean was well over two months into his captivity, having not been permitted to leave his cell.

It meant that the only daylight he'd seen in that two months was through the small crack in which he drank his tea each morning.

So he's taken outside into the bright sunlight.

He's got 50 bucks here.

We've got to get on with this.

So we should clear up the situation regarding the poor lady on the switchboard because it turns out she wasn't purposefully putting Sean through to voicemail continuously and ignoring his request to speak to someone.

She was doing as she was told.

Did you know how long you'd been there for and you were well aware of tracking time and days and all the rest of it?

Chapter eight.