Kate Adie

The editor was Richard Fenton-Smith.

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You can hear more stories from around the world on From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Sounds, including a dispatch from Nigeria, where civilian vigilante groups have taken up the fight against bandit attacks, and why Americanos are being replaced with Canadianos in cafes in Vancouver.

We'll be back with a new episode next Saturday.

Yeah, I can understand that.

How then do you go into journalism? I mean, for me, it was watching Kate Adie on the news.

Okay.

It was for me.

Do join us.

From Our Own Correspondent was presented by Kate Adie.

Now, before the 10:00 news, here's Jay Rayner to tell us about a very special edition of The Kitchen Cabinet.

Hello.

Janine was Claire Corbett.

Mick and Barry, Sam Dale, and Pavin MacLeod, Tim Crouch.

Also featuring Kate Adie, Ron Brown, Charles Carroll, James Coomarasamy, Amy Gladwell, Caroline Nicholls, Neil Nunes, Matthew Paris, Jay Rayner, Al Ryan, and Jane Steele.

The song was composed by Joey Crouch and Owen Crouch, and the singer was Ella Whitehead.

On the whole, though, Operation Nimrod was judged a success, at least until stories surfaced about hostage-takers surrendering and still being shot by SAS soldiers.

Significantly, the entire incident was captured on live television, with the BBC even interrupting coverage of the World Snooker Championships to cover the unfolding crisis, and reporter Kate Adie catapulting herself to media fame by reporting unscripted from behind a car door for 45 minutes in one of the longest-ever live-to-air news flashes.

Palomares is a small Spanish fishing village in East Andalusia.

On the 17th of January 1966, it became the focus of global attention when a B-52 bomber of the US Air Force Strategic Air Command collided with a KC-135 tanker while refueling 9,500 meters above the Mediterranean Sea.

Yeah, have that Mayhew, he's sat at home now.

I'm gonna read out one of your texts, I'll put that on the podcast, but I'm gonna edit someone else's name over the top of it so it looks like it's been texted in by Kate Adie.

It's ridiculous, this odd little war has developed between you and the bloke simply because he went, oh, go on, put us in.

You're

listening to this, Tom.

Kate Adie's texted in.

Yeah, later on I'm gonna edit that over your text.

um on a sunday

The editor was Richard Fenton-Smith.

I'm Kate Adie, and you can hear more stories from around the world on From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Sounds, including a dispatch from the campaign trail of the AFD in Germany, and the story of how corned beef changed the fortunes of a Uruguayan town.

We'll be back with a new episode next Saturday.

Please welcome your Any Questions panel.

I'm not sure if he parachuted, but if he didn't parachute, he went in a glider, which is just as terrifying.

This is proper, as we would recognise it now, you know, the famous like Kate Adie and Raggy Omar and all those people.

It's much more like that, isn't it?

It is.