Former BBC television reporter Kate Adie is to give a talk in the Isle of Man early next year.
Having started her journalistic carreer in radio, she joined the television service in London in 1979, working initially as a court correspondent
Adie gained national prominence as a journalist with her reports from the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980. At that time it represented a breakthrough for women journalists as until then war zones and other hotspots were the preserve of male journalists.
As that afternoon’s duty reporter, Adie was first on the scene as the SAS stormed the embassy. The BBC interrupted coverage of the World Snooker Championships and Adie reported live and unscripted to one of the largest news audiences ever while crouched behind a car door.
After the Iranian embassy siege, Adie was often dispatched to report on disasters and conflicts throughout the 1980s, including the American bombing of Tripoli in 1986, and the Lockerbie bombing of 1988.
She was promoted to chief news correspondent in 1989 and held the role for 14 years. One of her first assignments as chief news correspondent was to report the suppression of the student uprising in Tiananmen Square in China.
Other assignments followed including The Gulf War, conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the British evacuation of foreign nationals from Sierra Leone in 2000.
In 2003, Adie withdrew from front-line reporting. She continues to work as a freelance journalist and presents From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4.
The dinner will take place from 7pm, on Thursday January 28 at the Palace Hotel & Casino in Douglas.
It is being staged by the Isle of Man Sporting and Dining Club.
Tickets are £60 for members, and £66 for non-members.
Optician SpecSavers is sponsoring it.
Tickets available on email john@sportinganddiningclub.com or telephone 617049 or 495749.