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Production: An Audience With Kate Adie
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Kate Adie
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Best-selling author and award-winning broadcaster, Kate Adie started her career as a studio technician, quickly promoted to producer, with BBC local radio, after graduating in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She became a regional TV news reporter at BBC Plymouth, before moving to BBC News in London in 1979, working on both home and foreign stories.
Kate has reported from many of the world’s danger zones, winning awards for her coverage of the Iranian Embassy siege and the American bombing of Tripoli. On her return from China in June 1989, following the killings in Tiananmen Square, she was promoted to Chief Correspondent BBC News. She subsequently covered the Gulf War, the war in former Yugoslavia and events in Armenia, Albania, Rwanda and China as well as disasters in and around the United Kingdom. She is the author of four books: her autobiography, The Kindness of Strangers; Corsets to Camouflage, a history of women and war; Nobody’s Child, about abandoned children, which generated the BBC1 documentary series, Found; and Into Danger, an account of lethally risky work. Kate is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's, From Our Own Correspondent.
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