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Kate Adie
Kate Adie, author and broadcaster, achieved fame through her work as the BBC’s Chief News Correspondent, and is considered to be among the finest reporters, as well as one of the first British women, sending dispatches from danger zones around the world. She is also familiar as the presenter of Radio Four’s From Our Own Correspondent and a guest on many other radio and television programmes. She has been named “Reporter of the Year” twice by the Royal Television Society; the first occasion was for her coverage of the SAS relief of the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980. She also won the Monte Carlo International Golden Nymph Award in 1981 and 1990, and was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 1993.
Kate grew up in Sunderland and gained her BA from Newcastle University where she read Swedish. She was a member of the National Youth Theatre and still attends the theatre and visits galleries when time permits. She is an avid reader of both fiction and history, and has served as a judge for literary prizes, most recently, the Orange Prize for Fiction. Kate is a trustee of the Imperial War Museum, and her illustrated, companion history to the museum’s exhibition about women in uniform was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2003.
Her first book, The Kindness of Strangers, an account of her work as a reporter and how she came to undertake it, published by Headline in 2001, stayed on the Sunday Times best seller list for 37 weeks; the combined paperback and hardback editions have sold some half million copies so far.
Hodder & Stoughton have now published Kate’s new book, Nobody’s Child: Who are you when you don’t know your Past? to rave reviews.
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