Kate Adie OBE, a patron of Friends of BCH, gave an entertaining and thought provoking talk at St Michael’s Church, Amersham on the Hill to a capacity audience of 250 people.
Kate Adie, author and broadcaster, became a familiar figure to TV viewers through her work as the BBC’s Chief News Correspondent. She is considered to be one of the very finest reporters as well as one of the first British women to send despatches from danger zones around the world. Kate currently presents BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent and appears as a guest on many other radio and television programmes.
Kate came into television via local radio and serendipity rather than having a long, deep-rooted ambition. Her career has taken her to Northern Ireland, the Balkans, China, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and The Gulf to report impartially on situations as they developed. She told us that her job was to observe and inform her audience and to open a window onto how others lived and behaved. It is not a reporter’s job to interfere in or try to influence what is happening. This must be done by professional people working in that field.
For her most recent book, Into Danger: risking your life for work, Kate interviewed bomb disposal experts, a bank robber, prostitutes, people who clear landmines and a hundred year old man who had milked the venom from highly poisonous snakes for most of his working life (the venom is needed to make antidotes).
After the talk, Kate answered questions, signed books and met members of the audience. Friends of BCH is extremely grateful to Kate for her time and the event raised £5000. The whole evening was hugely enjoyable. Thanks also to members of St Michael’s Church who were very helpful before and during the evening, Café Africa for providing the refreshments and Waterstone’s for selling Kate’s books and tickets.
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