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          For someone used to bringing us the facts, Kate Adie's life story, The Kindness of Strangers, is oddly short on personal detail.!

          Kate Adie

          British journalist

          Kathryn AdieCBE DL (born 19 September 1945)[2] is an English journalist.

          Although an intensely private person, Kate Adie also divulges what it's like to be a woman in a man's world - an inspiration to many working women.

        1. Ashley Coates recalls a conversation with Kate Adie, journalist and BBC war correspondent.
        2. For someone used to bringing us the facts, Kate Adie's life story, The Kindness of Strangers, is oddly short on personal detail.
        3. 6 Days tells the true story of 's Iranian Embassy siege in London.
        4. Adie was born in Whitley Bay, Northumberland.

          5. She was Chief News Correspondent for BBC News between 1989 and 2003, during which time she reported from war zones around the world.

          She retired from the BBC in early 2003 and works as a freelance presenter with From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4.

          Early life

          Adie was born in Whitley Bay, Northumberland.[3] She was adopted as a baby by a Sunderland pharmacist and his wife, John and Maud Adie,[4] and grew up there.

          Her birth parents were Irish Catholics and she made contact with her birth family in 1993, establishing a loving relationship lasting more than 20 years with her birth mother 'Babe' Dunnet. She failed to trace her birth father John Kelly, or his family from Waterford, despite public appeals, she knows only that he had a brother (her blood uncle) Michael.[5]

          She had an independent school education at Sunder