Autobiography: The Kindness of Strangers

Kate Adie''s story is an unusual one. Raised in post-war Sunderland, where life was ''a sunny experience, full of meat-paste sandwiches and Sunday school'', she has reported memorably and courageously from many of the world''s trouble spots since she joined the BBC in 1969. THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS encompasses Adie''s reporting from, inter alia, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Tiananmen Squ...