Paddy Ashdown
Thursday 17 May 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
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Paddy Ashdown
In a special extended interview, Philip Dodd talks to Paddy Ashdown, the former Leader of the Liberal Democrats - and until recently the United Nations High Representative in Bosnia.
On the publication of his new book, Swords and Ploughshares: Bringing Peace to the Twenty-First Century, Ashdown talks about his time in the Balkans, working to to reconstruct Bosnia from the rubble of war - and the wider lessons he believes can be learned from his experience.
He discusses why he is drawn to leadership - of the Liberal Democrats and as a Captain in the Army. But has he always been an outsider - as an Ulsterman at an English public school and a Briton running a foreign country?
