Mark Colvin one of Australia's longest-serving broadcasters, as a
reporter for more than two decades and the national radio evening
institution he has become as host of PM since 1997. He reveals what
it was like to discover his diplomat father was really an M16 spy.
And the reality of covering some of the most dangerous flashpoints
of recent history: Tehran during the hostage crisis, the end of the
Cold War, Iraq in the buildup to the First Gulf War and Rwanda in
the direct aftermath of one of the worst massacres of the century.
It was in Rwanda that Colvin contracted a life-threatening disease
that put him in hospital for six months, often close to death. He
recovered and began as host of PM. However the slow deterioration
of his kidneys in 2010 saw him undertake three punishing years of
dialysis while he continuing to broadcast daily. In a remarkable
twist of fate, an Australian he met as a contact decided to give
him a kidney in 2013. One Pair Of Eyes is the story of how someone
dedicated to reporting on the world first hand, continued to try to
do so by proxy when he was no longer able toa "through the eyes of
friends and fellow-correspondents, through reading and study, and
more recently by putting himself at the forefront of the use of
social media in journalism.
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