Quotes by Kate Adie

About Kate Adie:

Kathryn "Kate" Adie 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.
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But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their so...

Kate Adie

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

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It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

Kate Adie

I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.

Kate Adie

I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

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I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.

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On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to 'What should I do?' 'What can I do?' There isn't a lot of time for contemplation.

Kate Adie

There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.

Kate Adie

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.

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People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.

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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

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War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

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I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.

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In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

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Author Bio

  • NameKate Adie
  • DescriptionBritish journalist
  • BornSeptember 19, 1945
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionJournalist
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire