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From July 2003 - September 2007, Caroline Wyatt was Paris Correspondent, covering the 2007 election campaign, as well as inadvertently becoming the BBC's French food and wine correspondent, an onerous task which she nonetheless applied herself to with vigour. From November 2000 - March 2003, she was the BBC's Moscow correspondent, reporting on Chechnya as well as covering President Vladimir Putin's rise to prominence. She joined the BBC as a News and Current Affairs trainee in 1991, after gaining a postgraduate diploma in journalism from City University in London in 1990. From 1993 to 2000 she was based in Germany, as Berlin correspondent, later moving to Bonn and then back to Berlin when it once again became the German capital. Her experience of Iraq and the Middle East dates back to 1998 and the Desert Fox campaign, and later in 2003 as an embedded correspondent with British forces during the invasion of Iraq. She returned to cover the British forces in Basra in March 2008. Caroline has also reported from Israel and Gaza and was based in Albania and Kosovo in 1999, covering the Nato campaign and the subsequent return of Kosovo Albanian refugees to their homes. In November 2001 to April 2002, Caroline covered the British and US campaign in Afghanistan from the Northern Alliance HQ in Khodja Bauhouddin in northern Afghanistan, as well as the subsequent peace- keeping efforts in Kabul and Baghram, returning to Afghanistan for a Christmas embed in December 2007 in Helmand Province with 40 Commando Royal Marines. Caroline studied English and German at Southampton University, where she was a member of Southampton OTC. She also completed a six-month exchange programme at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. She was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Woldingham, from September 1977 to July 1984. She is an occasional presenter for Radio 4's Saturday PM programme, ‘The World Tonight’, ‘From Our Own Correspondent’, ‘The World This Weekend’ and the World Service programmes ‘Newshour’ and ‘Europe Today’. |
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