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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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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

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

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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

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Only the Brits do this as for the military from the rest of Europe and NATO - you could die in front of them and they would take no notice.

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I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

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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.

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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.

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I worked in Bosnia, where 77 journalists were killed and 400 wounded, and at the BBC we have just lost a news producer in Africa.

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Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

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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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I remember she had these long, lovely nails with red varnish, in the middle of this shitty place we were in

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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

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There is an odd grammar in that sentence, which seems wrong, but is actually precise. Close siblings were less common, ... It seemed.

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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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and I owe her a huge amount for that. I don't have any conflict there. Some of my foundlings said this is the person who looked after you, who wiped your nose and held your hand and cuddled you when you fell down. This is your mum. This is it.

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Somewhere in the twentieth century we stopped regarding children as property and started seeing them as people.

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I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

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Historians say this will lead to civil conflict. It doesn't lead to girls being treasured. It leads to them being traded as commodities and stolen.

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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

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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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it's strange to think of yourself as an only child and then suddenly find yourself with three siblings. Does Adie ever feel like an outsider when the rest share a history that she doesn't Curiously, I went to a wedding quite near the start, and when we got to the church this charming man came up and said, 'Bride or groom' ... Groom You're with the groom

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