Kate Adie: Reporting the Truth Under Fire

“After hours of shooting and facing a line of troops, the crowd is still here. They are shouting, ‘Stop the killing and down with the government.’”

Kate Adie stands in the centre of the screen. Flesh has been torn from her elbow by a bullet. Behind her, sirens blare and people walk around dazed. She is reporting live from Tiananmen Square.

This was just one of Kate’s many foreign assignments, and one of several occasions when a bullet barely missed her vital organs. She was grazed by a bullet in Beirut and hit by shrapnel in Bosnia.

She has reported from Russia, the United States, Africa, and Northern Ireland. She was with the Coalition forces as they chased Saddam Hussein’s troops out of Kuwait in 1991.

She was on duty in London in 1980 when the siege of the Iranian Embassy was brought to an end by the SAS. Her commentary, which interrupted the World Snooker Championship, was heard in millions of homes.

From 1989 until 2003, she served as the BBC's Chief News Correspondent, and for one evening she will join us live on the Trouble stage. Kate will take us behind the scenes of an extraordinary career that spans many decades, many continents and many moments of peril.

Do not miss this opportunity to hear from a woman who witnessed some of the most pivotal moments of the 20th century.

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