She reported from the wreckage of Lockerbie, was held at gunpoint in the Balkans, and interviewed a dictator accused of ethnic cleansing.


Carole Walker looks back on three decades as a BBC correspondent — from the horror of war and terrorism to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the political earthquakes that reshaped Britain.


She also reveals:


  • The surreal moment a Moscow doctor pulled a bug out of his wall before speaking freely for the first time
  • How it felt watching statues of Soviet power hauled down in Moscow’s squares
  • What life was really like on Tony Blair’s 1997 battle bus
  • The night David Cameron realised he’d lost Brexit — and his job
  • Why younger generations turning to TikTok for politics leaves her uneasy


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