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Lyse Doucet

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2019-09-10

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2019-09-10

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1. “I don't know, they don't really know how and why it happens, and it doesn't really happen that it comes back, but the doctors looked at it. I had another scan recently, and they said, well, you're managing, it's coming to, you know, the fowls are supposed to come right together. They said, it's almost coming together. My poor one poor valve is working over time and the other one's become lazy and it's not working at all.”

   2019-09-10 · Intelligence Squared · How I Found My Voice: Lyse Doucet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “So I went to get this operation where they put a camera down your throat and they found out that one of my throat valves have stopped working. So your valves are supposed to come together and mine were not really coming together. So over the past year, going to the NHS, working with speech therapist, I've had to learn how to Reedy to bring back my voice.”

   2019-09-10 · Intelligence Squared · How I Found My Voice: Lyse Doucet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

3. “Well, first of all, since it's all about finding your voice, I'm voiceless and wordless that after this extraordinary intervention, most of all starting by describing me as a celebrity. And I think that's the last thing I would describe myself as in terms of my own voice. I see myself as the voice of What do we say? Every woman, every man, every person just hashtag just a journalist in the field with as extraordinary passport called the BBC, which has allowed me to travel to places and When, Smear, when you asked me to be on this program about voice, I thought oh, it's not just about the voice or broadcasting. I actually physically almost lost my voice, that I suddenly started not sounding the same and people listening to me on the radio would say, what's wrong at least to settle's voice?”

   2019-09-10 · Intelligence Squared · How I Found My Voice: Lyse Doucet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

4. “wars would stop on the battlefield so that everyone would listen to the BBC and Pashtu and in Persian to find out what was happening on the battlefield. And of course my dispatches were translated often by a man so they thought Lisette was a man. He goes, Oh, we want the BBC, but we don't want a woman. And then I don't know where I found this composure to think. And I said, okay, well, I will come. I will dress like a man, but I will come as the BBC. And he goes, okay, fine.”

   2019-09-10 · Intelligence Squared · How I Found My Voice: Lyse Doucet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source