fast doing broad casts, i think i was terrible, they were really nice at the world service and they encouraged me and so i did a series of interviews and told them what was going on in southwest africa, which was a really interesting time. because as i say, it was apartheid on steroids. it had a large africana and german population who were very hard line. it was a very difficult time and the people i was working with, three of them got expelled, two of them were put under arrest in south africa. so we were seen as a kind of hot bed of anti—apartheid. but it was a really fast learning curve and that's when i really got the bug. and from the beginning of your career and then from there, you focused on foreign reporting. you covered the iranian embassy siege in your first week, i think. then the iran, iraq and falklands wars. is a foreign news really where your heart lies? no, it was then. by the way, i was a terrible war reporter. why? but i seemed to be sent