Kate Adie
































Kate Adie


CBE DL


Kate Adie in 2017
Adie at the Gibraltar International Literary Festival in 2017

Born
(1945-09-19) 19 September 1945 (age 73)

Whitley Bay, Northumberland, England
Alma mater University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Occupation Journalist
Notable credit(s)
 Chief News Correspondent for BBC News
Awards
Richard Dimbleby Award (1990)
Fellowship Award (2018)




Kathryn Adie, CBE, DL (/ˈeɪdi/; born 19 September 1945) is an English journalist. Her most high-profile role was that of chief news correspondent for BBC News, during which time she became well known for reporting from war zones around the world. She currently presents From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4.




Contents






  • 1 Life


  • 2 Career


  • 3 Awards and honours


  • 4 Charitable Associations


  • 5 Bibliography


  • 6 References


  • 7 External links





Life




Adie in 2014


Adie was born in Whitley Bay, Northumberland.[2] She was adopted as a baby by a Sunderland pharmacist and his wife, John and Maud Adie,[3] and grew up there.


She had an independent school education at Sunderland Church High School, and then studied at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where she obtained a degree in Scandinavian Studies and starred in several Gilbert and Sullivan productions.


Adie is a fan of Sunderland AFC.[4]



Career


Her career with the BBC began as a station assistant at BBC Radio Durham, then she became a producer for Radio Bristol. She then switched to television, directing outside broadcasts. She was a reporter for regional TV News in Plymouth and Southampton, and joined the national news team in 1976.


Her big break was the London Iranian Embassy siege in 1980.[5] As that evening's duty reporter, Adie was first on the scene as the Special Air Service stormed the embassy. The BBC interrupted coverage of the World Snooker Championships and Adie reported live and unscripted to one of the largest news audiences ever whilst crouched behind a car door.


Adie was thereafter regularly dispatched to report on disasters and conflicts throughout the 1980s, including the American bombing of Tripoli in 1986 (her reporting of this was criticised by the Conservative Party Chairman Norman Tebbit), and the Lockerbie bombing of 1988. She was promoted to Chief News Correspondent in 1989 and held the role for fourteen years. One of her first assignments was to report the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. 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.


In 2003 Adie withdrew from front-line reporting. She currently works as a freelance journalist (among other work she gives regular reports on Radio New Zealand) and also as a public speaker, and presents 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.[6] She is of Irish descent.[7]


Her close-to-the-action approach once caused her to be shot at by an "irate Libyan". The shot nicked her collar bone but she did not suffer permanent harm. Indeed, it was this approach that elicited the wry adage that "a good decision is getting on a plane at an airport where Kate Adie is getting off".


While she was in Yugoslavia, her leg was injured in Bosnia, and she also met Radovan Karadžić while there.[8]


Adie is also a best-selling author;



In 2002 she published her autobiography, The Kindness of Strangers.

In 2003 Corsets to Camouflage: Women and War was published.

In 2005 Nobody's Child, which covers the history of foundling children and questions of identity.

In 2008 Into Danger: People Who Risk Their Lives for Work.

In 2013 Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One.


In 2017 Adie was one of the speakers at the Gibraltar International Literary Festival.[9]


Adie was appointed Chancellor of Bournemouth University on 7 January 2019, succeeding Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers.[10]



Awards and honours



  • Adie won the Richard Dimbleby Award from BAFTA in 1990.[11]

  • Adie was appointed an OBE in the 1993 New Year Honours.[12]

  • In 2013 was appointed as one of the Deputy Lieutenant's of Dorset[13]

  • In 2018, Adie received the BAFTA Fellowship.[14]

  • Adie was appointed a CBE in the 2018 Birthday Honours[15]



  • Adie has honorary degrees from many universities, including York St John University[16], Nottingham Trent University[17] and the University of Bath (MA,1987).[18] She is an Honorary Professor of Journalism at the University of Sunderland, and has three Honorary Fellowships.[5] In 2013 Adie was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Plymouth University[19]

  • In 2019, Adie was appointed Chancellor of Bournemouth University[20].



Charitable Associations


In 2017 Adie was appointed as Ambassador for SSAFA, the UK’s oldest military charity.[21] Adie is currently also an ambassador for SkillForce[22] and the non-governmental organisation Farm Africa.[23] In July 2018 Adie became an Ambassador for the medical charity Overseas Plastic Surgery Appeal.[24]



Bibliography




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    ISBN 0-7553-1073-X


  • Corsets to Camouflage: Women and War, published by Coronet,
    ISBN 0-340-82060-8


  • Nobody's Child, published by Hodder & Stoughton,
    ISBN 0-340-83800-0


  • Into Danger, published by Hodder & Stoughton, (first ed.), September 2008,
    ISBN 0-340-93321-6


  • Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One, published by Hodder & Stoughton, September 2013,
    ISBN 978-1-4447-5967-9



References





  1. ^ "Kate Adie". From Our Own Correspondent. 29 August 2009. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.


  2. ^ David Simpson. "Hall of Fame". England's North East.


  3. ^ Summerskill, Ben (14 October 2001). "The Observer Profile: Kate Adie". The Guardian. London.


  4. ^ Sunderland AFC on the website of Bob Murray


  5. ^ ab "Kate Adie". BBC News. BBC. 3 January 2003. Retrieved 2 August 2011.


  6. ^ "Found :: Productions". Leopard Films. Archived from the original on 14 September 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2013.


  7. ^ Adie in search of her biological father in the Irish Examiner (Saturday, 11 April, 2015)


  8. ^ "He was a smart, rather vain man". BBC News. 22 July 2008.


  9. ^ The speakers of the 2017 Gibraltar International Literary Festival


  10. ^ "Broadcaster and author Kate Adie begins tenure as new BU Chancellor". www.bournemouth.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-05.


  11. ^ Announcement on the BAFTA website


  12. ^ The 1993 New Year Honours list in The Gazette.


  13. ^ Announcement in the Bournemouth Daily Echo


  14. ^ Announcement on the BAFTA website


  15. ^ 2018 Birthday Honours in The Gazette.


  16. ^ Adie on the York St John University website


  17. ^ Adie HonDLitt for contribution to journalism and broadcasting on the NTU website


  18. ^ "Honorary Graduates 1989 to present". bath.ac.uk. University of Bath. Retrieved 18 February 2012.


  19. ^ Plymouth University Archived 25 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine


  20. ^ "Home". www.bournemouth.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-05.


  21. ^ Adie announced as SSAFA ambassador


  22. ^ Adie on the SkillForce website (in June 2018)


  23. ^ Adie on the Farm Africa website


  24. ^ "Our Ambassadors — Overseas Plastic Surgery Appeal (OPSA)". Overseas Plastic Surgery Appeal (OPSA).




External links



  • Personal website

  • Kate Adie on the BBC website

  • A profile from The Observer that speculates on Adie's professional relationships









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