Hailed as one of the great foreign correspondents, Dame Ann (pictured) won numerous awards for a career which saw her interview princes and presidents and travel around the world.
You may think it hard to believe that a woman who has been shot at in Bosnia and hunted by secret service in Zimbabwe would see herself as having had it all.
ANN LESLIE: As I write this, I am shaking with delayed shock. I have been fleeing gunshots, running shoeless through streets full of smashed glass from looted shops.