I describe what it was like starting out as a young reporter in troubled Johannesburg and Durban during apartheid in the Seventies and Eighties and how that experience forged my skills and still informs what I do today. I take you through the highlights of my career: the dangers of being a frontline reporter; walking around the pits at Formula One Grand Prix and rubbing shoulders with Ayrton Senna and Nikki Lauda; drinking tequilas with Freddie Mercury; interviewing Roald Dahl when he had just written Mathilda; meeting senators and Monika Lewinsky in Washington; the vast number of "ordinary" people I have encountered doing extraordinary things.

I will also talk to you about how technology has completely transformed newspaper production, for better or worse, and my feelings now, as I look back over nearly 45 years.