Kate Adie has reported from many of the world's trouble spots since she joined the BBC in 1969. This autobiography covers her experiences in Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Tiananmen Square and the Gulf War of 1991.

About The Author

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, including the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Costa. Kate has also served as a trustee of the Imperial War Museum, and her illustrated, companion history to the museum’s new permanent exhibition about women in uniform, Corsets to Camouflage, was published by Hodder & Stoughton to coincide with its opening in the autumn of 2003.

Her first book, The Kindness of Strangers, an account of her work as a reporter and how she came to undertake it, delete “was” published by Headline was on the Sunday Times best seller list for 37 weeks Hodder & Stoughton has now published Nobody’s Child: The Lives of Abandoned Children (2005) which formed the basis of two, BBC 1 documentaries series, FOUND, and, most recently, INTO DANGER, (2008) a study of what drives the men and women who have jobs that could cause their deaths. That comes out in paperback in April of this year.

Format: Mi-Vox

Published by BBC Audiobooks (Chivers)

ISBN-9781405672900