War Correspondents – album 2025

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Composed and text editing Helen Chadwick
From interviews with several journalists working in conflict zones including
Actor/Singers: Helen Chadwick, James Lailey, Michael Mears, Oliver Senton and Rebecca Thorn
Recorded by Chris Morphitis
Mixed by Duncan Chave and John Martindale
Mastered by Denis Blackham
Photo by Simon Wilkinson
Design by Jeremy Williams

SONGS

  1. Journalists One
  2. Kit
  3. Love And Fear
  4. Bang Bang Is Not The Story
  5. Impartial
  6. Take A Walk (NOT THIS TITLE)
  7. You Keep Telling Yourself
  8. Get Out Alive
  9. News Management
  10. We Reported It
  11. Sometimes To Be Silent
  12. There Is A Danger
  13. Come Home
  14. Spin
  15. Travel Tickets
  16. A Bruising Of The Mind
  17. If I Die
  18. No One Was There
  19. Everything Stays Broken
  20. The End And The Beginning
  21. Candle
  22. What Happens
  23. Held
  24. CHECK THAT ORDER WHEN THE MASTER arrives

Lyrics by Chadwick from interviews with journalists, and by Leunig, Longfellow, (Love and Fear), Brecht (the opening line of War Is Like Love), Samil al Qasim (Travel Tickets), Mansur Muhammad Ahmad Rajih (It’s Not Easy To Break Me), Pablo Neruda (If I Die), Saadi Yousef (Candle), Symborska (The End And The Beginning), and Erich Fried (What Happens).

For the interviews, we are deeply grateful to the following journalists: Shakh Aivazov, Margarita Akhvlediani, Goga Aptsiauri, Martin Bell, Ramzy Baroud, Leli Blagonravova, Sofia Chaava, Kate Holt, Larry James, Salome Jashi, Ewa Jasiewicz, Jana Javakhishvili, Maggie Kane, Temuri Kighuradze, David Kvijinadze, Giuliana Sgrena, Vakho Shalibashvili, Jack Shenker, Nino Shushania, Vaughan Smith, John Spaul, Chris Stephen, Guram Tsibakhashvili, Nino Zhizhilashvili, Zoriah, and anon as well as to Giorgi Gogia of Human Rights Watch and to the Tim Hetherington Trust and Stephen Mayes for permission to quote Tim Hetherington.

With thanks to the following authors, translators and publishers:

It’s Not Easy To Break Me by Mansur Muhammad Ahmad Rajih tr. Powell and Mansur Rajih, is from Another Sky published by English Pen.

If I Die is by Pablo Neruda translated by Alistair Reid, published in Pablo Neruda: Absence and Presence, 1990.

Candle is a setting of the poem Hamra Night by Saadi Yousef translated by Abdullah al-Udhari from Modern Poetry of the Arab World, with his kind permission.

Travel Tickets by Samih al Qasim translated by Abdullah al-Udhari is from Victims of the Map published by Saqi Books.

The End and the Beginning by Wislawa Szymborska is from Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska English translation copyright 2001 by Joanna Trzeciak, used by permission of W.W. Norton and Company, Inc.

What Happens by Erich Fried is from 100 Poems Without a Country by Erich Fried, reproduced by kind permission of Oneworld Classis, and the estate of Erich Fried. Translation Stuart Hood.

Every effort has been made to contact the copyright holders of the texts used.