Brief CV: I was a BBC reporter and presenter from 1970 until 2020.
I received the Gold and Silver Sony Radio Academy Journalist of the Year awards in 2004 and 2005. I was also awarded Deuxième Prix three times at the Bayeux-Calvados war correspondents' awards in Normandy.
If you want to know more about me, I have a Wikipedia entry.
After the end of the Iraq war and the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, I went there about thirty times (I counted the visas!).
The Iraq war was the most recent unprovoked international conflict before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.