Sally Hayden
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649 appearances
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3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 21 Jun
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And then I lived mostly in London for about five years.
And then I lived in Uganda and Sierra Leone.
And now the last two and a half years in Lebanon.
So I think they're used to me not being...
But I got to see them a bit anyway.
I think that the war in Lebanon, that was probably the most frightening just because it was, you know, so there's so many headlines and everything about it.
And actually the book opens with me kind of talking about that and what that experience was like.
And yeah, the fact that everybody, because it was a very stressful experience.
The war has started.
The war is terrifying.
But one thing that a lot of people I knew in Beirut at that time, they were also talking about is how can we reassure our family members?
Even family members inside Lebanon would be messaging each other in different places, panicking, like, are you okay?
What's happening?
And
Yeah.
So you're trying to manage all these networks of people who like love you and are worried about you.
And that really, you know, that struck out to me that this is actually like, yeah, part of a war is taking care of those people you love, you know, just reassuring them as well.
Yeah, I mean, I think I refer to it in the book as a kind of detachment crisis.
And we have this situation now where I think globally, the latest Reuters Institute report, which is very well respected, found that about 40% of people sometimes or often don't read the news anymore or don't pay attention to it.
And yeah, that's obviously very concerning because like...
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