BROADCASTS.com

On this week\u2019s Richard Crouse Show Podcast we get to know Hilary Brown, author of the new book War Tourist, available now on Amazon and Barnes and Nobel. In a career that spanned almost four decades, she was ABC\u2019s first female foreign correspondent, and reported from every continent except Antarctica. TVO\u2019s \u201cThe Agenda\u201d called her \u201cCanada\u2019s best-ever female foreign correspondent.\u201d\n\nShe was one of the last journalists to be lifted by helicopter from the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon in 1975, during the Communist takeover of South Vietnam. One of her ABC reports later appeared in the motion picture \u201cThe Deer Hunter\u201d in what Brown calls her \u201cfifteen seconds of fame.\u201d\n\nShe has interviewed everyone from President Hamid Karzai, Condoleeza Rice and the Shah of Iran to Sidney Poitier, Lawrence Oliver and John le Carre.\n\nShe retired from what she calls \u201cthe best job in the world\u201d in 2009, and has now documented her life in her fascinating new memoir, \u201cWar Tourist.\u201d\n\nThen Samantha Fish, a guitarist, songwriter and singer, voted by guitarworld.com as oner of the 10 best blues guitarists in the world today joins us. Calling her a blues guitarist is a little misleading because in a career spanning over 10 years, the Kansas City, Missouri musician music features multiple genres, including blues but also rock, country, funk, bluegrass and ballads. \n\nHer latest album, \u201cFaster,\u201d available now wherever you buy fine records, adds a new twist or two\u2026 On the new record she explores new ground adding in elements of pop, contemporary R & B and hip-hop into the music.