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This is Kate Adie, BBC News...

9 Jul 2025

1:00pm

Quick summary

Price
£4 full price | £3.50 Nifties
Running time
1 hour 30 minutes
Venue
  • Arts Centre Washington

Additional information

Event description

Watching the television news from the 1980s through to the 2000s, viewers would see Kate Adie reporting from around the world, her presence underlining the seriousness of a situation and her words helping to make sense of it.

Kate’s archive has recently been catalogued at the University of Sunderland, covering not just her groundbreaking work in journalism but also her early life in her home town of Sunderland and her writing many topics including women in wartime.

Join Rachel Webb from the University of Sunderland to see the images and hear the stories of the interesting and sometimes unexpected mementoes, places and events of her career.