Kabul has dominated headlines for the past decade but not always for the right reasons. What is it actually like to live there?

In search of the answer to this question Canadian journalist Heidi Kingstone arrived in Kabul in 2007. She spent 18 months of the next four years there, encountering idealists and chancers, gunrunners and warlords, and then writing about it in her debut book, Dispatches from the Kabul Café.

Kingstone talks through some of the highs and lows of her life there.

To read an interview with Heidi Kingstone about her book click here.