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Gardner was encouraged by his teachers into taking up the biathlon, which enabled him to get to see Austria and train with the British Army biathlon team. He graduated from the University of Exeter in the year 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts in the subjects of Arabic and Islamic Studies. Sherwin, Adam (10 March 2012). "BBC star quits 'awards dinner for arms dealers' ". The Independent . Retrieved 9 September 2020. Being Frank: The Frank Gardner Story was broadcast by BBC Two on 5 November 2020. The documentary explores what is it like to be suddenly disabled. [27] He loves to ski, and is pretty good at it, too. After being injured, he took a course for skiers that were disabled. Gardner was able to ski by using a sit ski (also called a bob ski), which allows a disabled person to ski while they sit down. In 2016, Gardner appeared on Channel 4's coverage of the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in his role as President of the GB Ski Club.

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Frank Gardner has written a fast and exciting story rooted in the present horrifying dangers that surrounds us. Crisis is brimful of an insider's insights and reeks of authority." -- GERALD SEYMOUR Impressive . . .Gardner's debut begins at speed and scarcely draws breath thereafter." * The Times * Introducing Luke Carlton – ex-Special Boat Service commando, and now under contract to MI6 for some of its most dangerous missions.

Paranoid drugs baron Nelson Garcia, ‘El Pobrecito’, plans a deadly revenge for the British-led interference in his billion pound business. With money no object and the aid of that most sinister and secretive of rogue states, North Korea, he concocts and implements an ingenious plot with the population of London as its target. Sent into the steaming Colombian jungle to investigate the murder of a British intelligence officer, Luke finds himself caught up in the coils of a plot that has terrifying international dimensions.

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Sunlight pours through glass doors into the London restaurant where Frank Gardner is having his picture taken. It is Monday, late afternoon. He would like the photograph to be of his face. He would prefer his wheelchair not to be part of it. He does not want to be seen looking out of a window, in a reverie, as if in an old people's home. He is determined to continue to be himself. The face he presents to camera is fine and unusually still - perfect for a BBC television correspondent: undistracting. He is 44. He looks and sounds elegantly English. His voice is upper class, suggestive of another age. There is a slight edge to everything he says. It's good when he laughs, it transforms him. But sunlight exposes his profound fatigue. And the residual look in his eyes is - unsurprisingly - of endurance. Gardner was born on 31 July 1961. His father and mother, Robert Neil Gardner (1922–2010) and Evelyn Grace Rolleston (1923–2014), were both diplomats, [1] and when he was six he moved from the UK to the Hague in the Netherlands. In 1951, while second secretary at the British Embassy in Czechoslovakia, his father was expelled from the country for espionage activities after an incident in a prohibited military area where he was shot at. [2] [3] His grandfather was physician John Davy Rolleston. Educated at Saint Ronan's School, and Marlborough College, Gardner was pushed by his teachers into taking up biathlon, which enabled him to travel to Austria to train with the British Army biathlon team. [4]

On 24 September 2022, Gardner presented the BBC News special, Ukraine: Putin's Nuclear Threat. The documentary focuses on the recent gains by Ukrainian forces and how it could provoke President Putin into using tactical nuclear weapons against Ukrainian forces engaged in the Russo-Ukrainian War. [28] Published works [ edit ] But he adds: 'I have to say it is not that easy because I am in pain a lot of the time, and when I am in pain I can't be a good husband or father. If I am having to deal with agony in my legs or am exhausted and have to lie down, I can't take part in the children's games, which is tough.' Czech Sentries Shoot British Official, Embassy Employee". Sydney: The Sunday Herald. Australian Associated Press. 16 December 1951 . Retrieved 29 July 2023.

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He is a keen birdwatcher [35] and presented a September 2009 BBC Archive Hour programme on Sir Peter Scott. [35] In 2019 he was elected President of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO). One of the gunmen who shot Gardner and Cumbers, Adel al-Dhubaiti, was captured and executed by Saudi authorities in January 2016. [21] We arrive in the British Telecom building where I lose Gardner to a glass lift, but not before an old man has come forward to congratulate him. 'One of the many things I admire about you is the way you manage to be so apolitical about the Middle East,' he said. 'It is a magnificent quality.' Gardner thanks him. He goes on to give a short talk about his life, with polish, without notes. He is light and humorous, but explains to his audience: 'There is plenty wrong with the Arab world. I am not starry eyed about it. There are some extremely ugly, unpleasant trends and atrocities being done in the name of Islam.' But he holds on to his idealism. He finishes by urging the audience: 'It is a mountain we all need to climb to convince everyone that we can all live happily together - as we can.' BBC Two's Being Frank, his documentary broadcast in November 2020, explored what it is like to become disabled. Gardner spoke candidly of his recent separation from his wife of 22 years; the two remain great friends. Saudi Arabia execute inmate who shot BBC journalist Frank Gardner and killed cameraman Simon Cumbers". The Independent. 4 January 2016 . Retrieved 30 June 2017.

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In September 2012, he revealed that Queen Elizabeth II had been upset some years earlier that Abu Hamza al-Masri could not be arrested. The BBC apologised later that day for the revelation. [22] Other media work [ edit ] He speaks briskly: 'There was never a time when I gave up hope, whether lying mortally wounded on the streets of Riyadh or coming to terms with being partially paralysed. But that is not to say there have not been some very depressing times. And there are immense challenges ahead. Paraplegia, unfortunately, is a tunnel which you don't come out of,' he says - but only because I ask. 'I am not out of the woods yet. I am faced with a whole catalogue of medical conditions that do not usually afflict people until their seventies and eighties. I have got osteoporosis, for example, for not weight-bearing on my legs enough.' BBC apology to Queen over Abu Hamza disclosure". BBC News. 25 September 2012 . Retrieved 9 September 2020. He wrote a bestselling memoir called “Blood and Sand” that described his experiences while in the Middle East, and wrote another book that documents his travels to unusual places around the globe. Gardner has also written some books about a character named Luke Carlton, which are from the thriller genre.