InterContinental
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Sep 28, 2026
Claire NicholsHOST
And she does that in her unique style through a hotel in Kabul.
Claire NicholsHOST
The Intercontinental was built in 1969 and it reflects every political system Afghanistan went through.
Lyse DoucetGUEST
There was the kingdom.
Lyse DoucetGUEST
That was when the hotel was open, the star-studded reception.
Lyse DoucetGUEST
It was not aimed at you.
Debbie WhitmontMODERATOR
You could have written one of those books of great daring do where you're there in your helmet, in your flak jacket, telling the thrilling tales of a war correspondent, but you didn't.
Debbie WhitmontMODERATOR
You wrote a book about a hotel, the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul.
Debbie WhitmontMODERATOR
Why? Do you know what they say
Deb McBrideHOST
I've got my backup plans if I have to leave the house.
Deb McBrideHOST
There's always the Intercontinental.
Deb McBrideHOST
And there's just other things that could creep up out of like that Friday electric outage.
Deb McBrideHOST
That was a complete surprise.
David McCartneyGUEST
And now the yes is I am retiring from day-to-day operations leadership at hotels.
David McCartneyGUEST
and transitioning to join the IHG group, specifically the luxury and lifestyle group, Kempton's and Intercontinental's as an interim operations leader, general manager, perhaps later opening, helping open hotels.
David McCartneyGUEST
with customer service training.
David McCartneyGUEST
Almost hesitated at the training word.
Jerry SediciGUEST
505 North Michigan.
Kison PatelHOST
Was that by Intercontinental now?
Jerry SediciGUEST
Intercontinental, yeah.
Jerry SediciGUEST
Intercontinental Hotel.
Jerry SediciGUEST
One mistake I made.
Jerry SediciGUEST
The biggest mistake in my life.
Jerry SediciGUEST
505 North Michigan.
Kison PatelHOST
Was that by Intercontinental now?
Jerry SediciGUEST
Intercontinental, yeah.
Jerry SediciGUEST
Intercontinental Hotel.
Jerry SediciGUEST
One mistake I made.
Jerry SediciGUEST
The biggest mistake in my life.
Justin RobertsHOST
It's a 250, correct? Yeah, it's a 250.
Justin RobertsHOST
The tournament hotel is the Intercontinental, and it costs like $200 a night.
Justin RobertsHOST
And I'm staying across the road at like just another hotel that's literally three-minute walk from InterContinental.
Justin RobertsHOST
It's like $90 a night.
Mia SorrentiNARRATOR
She joined us at Union Chapel to reflect on a career spent reporting from the front lines and on the importance of telling the human stories that can be lost amid the politics of war.
Mia SorrentiNARRATOR
Doucette also discusses her women's prize-winning book, The Finest Hotel in Kabul, which tells the story of modern Afghanistan through the Intercontinental Hotel, and the people who kept it running through invasion, civil war, and the return of the Taliban.
Mia SorrentiNARRATOR
Let's join our host, historian and author Peter Frankopan, live at Union Chapel.
Peter FrankopanHOST
Thank you, Mia.
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Lyse DoucetGUEST
The Taliban are now in the press.
Lyse DoucetGUEST
The Taliban are back.
Lyse DoucetGUEST
Well, when I went up to the Intercontinental Hotel a few days later, did you hear? Did you hear? We had a wedding in the ballroom, and nobody ate the lunch.
Lyse DoucetGUEST
The bride, the bride did not change from her green dress to her white dress.
Bunny YoungHOST
You know what? We'll give you guys the two-minute version of this.
Bunny YoungHOST
So we went to, like, a really bougie dinner at the top of the Intercontinental in downtown LA.
Bunny YoungHOST
And it was the first time...
Bunny YoungHOST
No, it wasn't the first time we were in person together, but it was the first time that we were at, like, an intimate table like that together.
Justin SiemsHOST
[laughs]
Steve GiordanoGUEST
Um, and then we all go back to the hotel, and, you know, it was a nice hotel, the Intercontinental over there.
Steve GiordanoGUEST
And, uh, one night of rest, the next day we were flying back.
Steve GiordanoGUEST
Have dinner, get back to the hotel room.
Gunnar OlsonHOST
I couldn't have showed up to the airport in worse shape.
Gunnar OlsonHOST
I was drenched in a rainstorm, covered in mud at the airport trying to get my flight back to, uh, the island of Tahiti so I can go check into the InterContinental and do a review there.
Kyle PotterHOST
I would pay for photos of that.
Gunnar OlsonHOST
[laughs] There were no photos-
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