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British journalist

Kathryn Adie (born 19 September 1945) is an English journalist. She was Chief News Correspondent for BBC News between 1989 and 2003, during which time she reported from war zones around the world. She retired from the BBC in early 2003 and works as a freelance presenter with From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4.

Adie was born in Whitley Bay, Northumberland. She was adopted as a baby by a Sunderland pharmacist and his wife, John and Maud Adie, and grew up there. Her birth parents were Irish Catholics and she made contact with her birth family in 1993, establishing a loving relationship lasting more than 20 years with her birth mother 'Babe' Dunnet. She failed to trace her birth father John Kelly, or his family from Waterford, despite public appeals, she knows only that he had a brother (her blood uncle) Michael. She had an independent school education at Sunderland Church High School, and in 1963 1964 travelled to Berlin including the Soviet Sector of East Berlin to complete a German language course. She obtained her degree at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, in Swedish and Icelandic studies. At university she got to know the BBC presenter Marian Foster, who was president of the Gilbert and Sullivan society in which Adie performed several times. During her third year at Newcastle, she also taught English in sub arctic northern Sweden.

Her career with the BBC began, after graduation, as a station assistant at BBC Radio Durham. From 1971 to 1975 she was at Radio Bristol, where she presented 'Womanwise' on Fridays at 11am.

Adie lives in Cerne Abbas, Dorset.

In 2017 Adie was appointed as ambassador for SSAFA, the UK’s oldest military charity. Adie is currently also an ambassador for SkillForce and the non governmental organisation Farm Africa. In July 2018 Adie became an Ambassador for the medical charity Overseas Plastic Surgery Appeal. Adie is a fan of Sunderland AFC. In 2011, she took part in the Sunderland A. F. C. charity Foundation of Light event.

Adie's role as a BBC television journalist covering the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege in Princes Gate, central London, is included in 6 Days. The role was played by actress Abbie Cornish. The satirical British puppet TV show Spitting Image depicted Adie as a thrill seeker giving her the title "BBC Head of Bravery" and featuring her puppet in dangerous situations.