The Angel of Grozny
on 04 Mar 2008
Simon Mayo at BBC Radio 5 Live talks to war correspondent Asne Sierstad about her work in Chechnya over the past decade and her new book
The Angel of Grozny. You can listen to the
interview direct here or subscribe to the
Daily Mayo podcast,
Norwegian journalist Asne Sierstad has covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo since the 1990s. Her new book The Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya documents her return in 2006 to the war-torn region, from where she reported on the Russian military campaign twelve years earlier. link
Meanwhile the Guardian has an
extract from the book today and a column by Asne