The Autobiography: The Kindness of StrangersKate 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 Square and of course the Gulf War of 1991. It offers a compelling

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HONS AND REBELS and her investigative masterpiece

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