She reported from the wreckage of Lockerbie, was held at gunpoint in the Balkans, and interviewed a dictator accused of ethnic cleansing.

Carole Walker looks back on three decades as a BBC correspondent — from the horror of war and terrorism to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the political earthquakes that reshaped Britain.

She also reveals:

• The surreal moment a Moscow doctor pulled a bug out of his wall before speaking freely for the first time
• How it felt watching statues of Soviet power hauled down in Moscow’s squares
• What life was really like on Tony Blair’s 1997 battle bus
• The night David Cameron realised he’d lost Brexit — and his job
• Why younger generations turning to TikTok for politics leaves her uneasy

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