Kate Adie in Conversation
A Lifetime of Change
Hear from former BBC Chief News Correspondent
Join us for our Barnsgrove Speaker Series where we are delighted to welcome the legendary Kate Adie.
Kate Adie became a familiar figure through her work as BBC Chief News Correspondent. She is considered to be among the most reliable reporters, as well as one of the first British women, sending dispatches from danger zones around the world. Kate is also the long-serving presenter of Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent.
As a television news correspondent, Kate's memorable assignments include both Gulf Wars, four years of war in the Balkans, the final NATO intervention in Kosovo and elections in 2000; the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster at Zeebrugge, the massacre at Dunblane, the Selby rail crash, the SAS lifting of the Iran Embassy Siege in London, the Bologna railway station bombing and the Tiananmen Square protest in Beijing in 1989.
6.30pm- Arrival- Candover Brook and canapés
7pm- In Conersations with Kate Adie followed by Q&A
9pm- Close
