The Kindness of Strangers : The Autobiography

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While she was in Yugoslavia, her leg was injured in Bosnia and she met Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić. [35]

Patrons Supporting Us – The Prince William Award – Skillforce". Prince William Award. 26 July 2021. Into Danger: People Who Risk Their Lives for Work. Hodder & Stoughton. September 2008. ISBN 978-0-340-93321-3. Her career with the BBC began, after graduation, as a station assistant at BBC Radio Durham. From 1971 to 1975 she was at Radio Bristol, where she presented 'Womanwise' on Fridays at 11am. [17] Television [ edit ] Her mother married in 1940, in Bourne, Lincolnshire, to William Dunnet (born 1912 in Essex). Her mother, and her mother's husband, later lived at 41 London Road in Newark-on-Trent. [7] Her brother Alastair Dunnet attended the Magnus Grammar School in Newark, [8] [9] [10] and married, in 1969, Jeanie Brown. Jeanie taught English from 1969 to 1973 at Kesteven and Sleaford High School, then at the Fane Secondary School (now Stamford Welland Academy) in Stamford, Lincolnshire. Alistair taught Biology at The King's School, Grantham until 1973, then Fane Secondary School, where he lived at Witham on the Hill. [11] He later retrained for a year in Physics, then both left to teach in Singapore. [12] He returned to the King's School, now teaching Physics, and by 1993 he was head of science at the comprehensive Queen's School ( Thomas Clarkson Academy from 2007) in Wisbech, [13] where he stayed for 20 years.Broadcaster Kate Adie warns of threats to journalism as she collects CBE". British Telecom. Press Association. 11 October 2018. Archived from the original on 28 May 2019 . Retrieved 30 June 2019.

Kate Adie talks about her life..." The Westmorland Gazette. 28 March 2003 . Retrieved 16 September 2022. Found: Productions". Leopard Films. Archived from the original on 14 September 2013 . Retrieved 2 August 2013. We seem to be living through a time where there are threats to journalists everywhere, whether it's repression or censorship, and it's hugely important to recognise that the intention of journalism is to tell it as it is and we need to do that more than ever now.Her sister Catriona (Katy) attended Newark Preparatory School, then the Lilley and Stone Girls' School. [14] In 1972 Katy married James Smith.

Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9350 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-2000045 Openlibrary_edition In 2003 Adie retired from the BBC, where she had been Chief News Correspondent. [39] She subsequently worked as a freelance journalist, where among other work she gives regular reports on Radio New Zealand, as a public speaker, as well as participating in many of the 500 iPlayer episodes [40] of From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4. She hosted two five-part series of Found, a Leopard Films production for BBC One, in 2005 and 2006. The series considered the life experiences of adults affected by adoption and what it must be like to start one's life as a foundling. [41] Higgins, Michael; Smith, Angela (26 August 2010). "Not One of U.S.: Kate Adie's report of the 1986 US bombing of Tripoli and its critical aftermath". Journal of Journalism Studies. Taylor & Francis Online. 12 (3): 344–358. doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2010.504568. S2CID 142827159. It is harder to define what the action is about, and she often admits defeat. Of Bosnia, she says: 'It was as if someone had decided to play a lethal board game and failed to produce a set of rules. However, break an invisible rule, and you got blown off the board.' Libya 'wasn't like a country, it was a kind of mad boarding-school where the rules were unknown but the punishments fearful'.Don't bother reading this if you want to find out about Ms Adie's personal life. I did find it interesting for fleshing-out the news stories that were on the telly as I was growing up, in particular Northern Ireland and the Falklands War. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-07-24 08:00:58 Boxid IA40177620 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Adie's autobiography is an interesting though unsurprising walk through her career, but she keeps her life at arm's length. She leaves you with the impression of a talented, focused journalist (which we knew already) with a sharp mind and rigorous principles. Gibraltar Literary Festival – Speakers – International Speakers". www.gibraltarliteraryfestival.com.