The Kindness of Strangers : The Autobiography

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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] In 2017 Adie was appointed as ambassador for SSAFA, the UK’s oldest military charity. [57] Adie is currently also an ambassador for SkillForce [58] and the non-governmental organisation Farm Africa. [59] In July 2018 Adie became an Ambassador for the medical charity Overseas Plastic Surgery Appeal. [60] 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. While she was in Yugoslavia, her leg was injured in Bosnia and she met Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić. [35]

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. Major assignments followed in the Gulf War, the war in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the war in Sierra Leone in 2000. [26]

Kate Adie talks about her life..." The Westmorland Gazette. 28 March 2003 . Retrieved 16 September 2022.

During her third year at Newcastle, she also taught English in sub-arctic northern Sweden. [16] Career [ edit ] Radio [ edit ] 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 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 ] Summerskill, Ben (14 October 2001). "The Observer Profile: Kate Adie". The Guardian– via www.theguardian.com.Kathryn Adie CBE DL (born 19 September 1945) [2] is an English journalist. She was Chief News Correspondent for BBC News between 1989 and 2003, during which time she reported from war zones around the world.

Her enjoyment of her job is unwavering: 'But I loved Northern Ireland' or 'One of the curiosities of rioting is the extent to which it is fun...' She takes us on a dizzying globe-trot (you feel like something squashed at the bottom of her suitcase by the end) to Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Libya, Tiananmen Square, the Gulf - and is at her best in action. Didn't finish this mainly due to time constraints - it was from a library reading group set and needed to be returned. BBC Veteran War Reporter Kate Adie visits Pearson Engineering". Pearson Engineering. 1 July 2019 . Retrieved 11 March 2020.Thatcher forced to intervene over Tebbit's 'obsessive' criticism of BBC, papers reveal". The Guardian. 23 January 2017 . Retrieved 11 March 2020. She retired from the BBC in early 2003 and works as a freelance presenter with From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4. This isn't an autobiography but more a memoir. Adie shows us round her career, but we walk behind her, not beside her. Adie the journalist is revealed in wonderful detail. Kate the woman is as much a stranger when you've finished the book as when you started. urn:lcp:kindnessofstrang0000adie_c5m1:epub:fb5b9852-dbd9-408d-972e-e5b20d04f55d Foldoutcount 0 Identifier kindnessofstrang0000adie_c5m1 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t40t1sf59 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0755310721

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'.

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Her sister Catriona (Katy) attended Newark Preparatory School, then the Lilley and Stone Girls' School. [14] In 1972 Katy married James Smith. 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. It's an extended 'From our Own Correspondent', really, the Correspondent being Kate Adie, and she's reporting on the Japes that she experienced in her rather exciting and privileged life. 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. Johnston, Lucy (27 May 2018). "BBC legend Kate Adie was hit by Chinese bullet in Beijing massacre – but kept quiet". Express.co.uk . Retrieved 20 March 2022.