Crisis What Crisis with Andy Coulson
Jul 28, 2026 · 5 min · 6 segments
Frank Gardner has lived, by his own description, two very different lives — and found a way to carry the best of the first into the second. Twenty years on from the attack in Riyadh that nearly killed…
[gentle music] Today's Crisis Compass comes from a man who has lived, by his own description, two very different lives and found a way to carry the best of the first into the second.
Frank Gardner is the BBC security correspondent and author, and one of the most recognizable disabled figures in Britain, though, as we've heard, that's a title he wears reluctantly.
20 years on from the attack that nearly killed him, he's still reporting from the places most of us would, well, really not dare to go.
In this bonus episode, I ask, as I always do, for Frank's crisis compass, the four points of navigation he turns to when life gets tough.
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