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Francis Rolleston Gardner (born 31 July 1961) is a British

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and author. He is currently the

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's Security Correspondent. His parents were both diplomats and his early life was spent in

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before being educated at Saint Ronan's School, and

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. He was commissioned into the British Army Reserves as a

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joining the 4th Volunteer Battalion, the

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in September 1984. After a career working in various jobs in the Middle East, including nine years as an investment banker, Gardner joined BBC World as a producer and reporter in 1995. He became the BBC's first full-time

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correspondent in 1997, before being appointed BBC Middle East correspondent in 1999. After the

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on New York, Gardner specialised in covering stories related to the

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. On 6 June 2004, while reporting from Al-Suwaidi, a district of

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, Gardner was shot six times and seriously injured in an attack by

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gunmen. One of Gardner's spinal nerves was hit in the attack and he was left partially paralysed in the legs. After 14 surgical operations, seven months in hospital and several months of rehabilitation, he returned to reporting for the BBC in mid-2005, using a wheelchair or a frame. In the

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, Gardner was appointed an

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(OBE) for services to journalism. Outside journalism Gardner, in November 2011, was elected honorary president of the

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. He is a Patron of Disability Snowsport UK (DSUK). In 2019 he was elected President of the

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(BTO). He has written two non-fiction works as well as a series of novels featuring the fictional SBS officer-turned

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operative Luke Carlton.

Early life

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, and when he was six he moved from the UK to

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in the

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. His grandfather was physician

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. Educated at Saint Ronan's School, and

, Gardner was pushed by his teachers into taking up

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, which enabled him to travel to

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to train with the

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biathlon team. When he was 16, Gardner met the Arabian explorer

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, and was invited to the explorer's home in

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. Partly as a result – and partly reasoning that knowing the Arabic language would make him employable in that part of the world – he was determined to study

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. In his

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Gardner saved up by working in a brick factory then went backpacking from

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. He then travelled to

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in the

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, to go hiking in the mountains of

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. He returned to study at the

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, graduating in 1984 with a

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(BA Hons) in Arabic and Islamic Studies.

Career

Military service

Gardner was commissioned on 23 May 1984 as a

(on probation). On 30 September 1984, he transferred from the general list to the 4th Volunteer Battalion, the

, as a second lieutenant (on probation) and was given seniority from 23 May 1984. His commission was confirmed and his rank of second lieutenant was dated to 23 May 1984 with seniority from 23 May 1982. He was promoted to

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on 30 September 1985, with seniority from 23 May 1984. He was promoted to

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on 1 October 1990, with seniority from 1 February 1989. On 11 November 1993, Gardner was appointed a captain in the Regular Army Reserve. He returned to the Territorial Army on 24 April 1997, serving in the Educational and Training Services Branch of the

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. He was promoted to

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in the Territorial Army on 1 July 2006.

Banking

Gardner worked as a marketing manager for Gulf Exports from 1984 to 1986 and in trading and sales for Saudi International Bank from 1986 to 1990. He worked for five years for Robert Fleming Bank from 1990 to 1995, becoming Director of Middle East. He had a nine-year career as an

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Journalism

In 1995 he left banking and joined

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as a producer and reporter. He became the BBC's first full-time

correspondent in 1997, setting up as a freelance

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. In 1999 Gardner was appointed BBC Middle East correspondent in charge of the bureau in

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, but travelled throughout the region. After the

on New York, Gardner specialised in covering stories related to the

. On 6 June 2004, while reporting from Al-Suwaidi, a district of

, notorious for extremism, Gardner was shot six times and seriously injured in an attack by

gunmen. His colleague, Irish cameraman

Simon Cumbers Simon Cumbers (23 January 1968 – 6 June 2004), an Irish cameraman for the BBC News in the United Kingdom, was shot by a gunman in a terrorist attack and died while reporting in As-Suwaidi, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His colleague Frank Gardner, ...

, was shot dead. Of the bullets which hit Gardner in his torso (others passed through his shoulder and leg) one hit his spinal nerves and he was left partially paralysed in the legs and since then has used a wheelchair. The pair had continued filming for more than half an hour, against the advice of Gardner's official Saudi Arabian government minders. The Saudi government promised compensation but they have never paid. After 14 surgical operations, seven months in hospital and several months of rehabilitation, he returned to reporting for the BBC in mid-2005, using a wheelchair or a frame. Despite his injury, he still frequently reports from the field including places like

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and

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but usually comments on top stories from a BBC studio. One of the gunmen who shot Gardner and Cumbers, Adel al-Dhubaiti, was captured and executed by Saudi authorities in January 2016. In September 2012, he revealed that Queen

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had been upset some years earlier that

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could not be arrested. The BBC apologised later that day for the revelation.

Other media work

Gardner has presented a variety of documentaries for the BBC since 2011. In 2011, Gardner presented ''Tintin's Adventure with Frank Gardner'' for the BBC, a documentary in which he retraced Hergé's character

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's journey from Brussels to Berlin to Moscow on his first ever adventure – ''

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''. In 2013 Gardner presented a one-hour

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documentary entitled ''Frank Gardner's Return to Saudi Arabia'', visiting the Yemeni border, Jeddah, Eastern Province and the Riyadh hospital where he recovered from his attack in 2004. In September 2015 Gardner was featured in an episode of the BBC's family history programme '' Who Do You Think You Are?'' in which he learned that he was directly descended from

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. In 2016 Gardner teamed up with

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in the BBC Two two-part documentary ''Birds of Paradise: The Ultimate Quest''. During an expedition to

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, they sought the elusive

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(a life-long ambition of Gardner's as an experienced

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), including the

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. The programme was broadcast on 3 and 10 February 2017. In March 2012, Gardner pulled out of hosting the Counter-Terrorism and Specialist Security Awards (CTSS) amid concerns that this would compromise the BBC's impartiality. In June 2018, Gardner chaired the keynote stage across the first two days of the security industry event IFSEC International, taking place in the

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in London. In 2016, Gardner appeared on

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's coverage of the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in his role as President of the GB Ski Club. ''Being Frank: The Frank Gardner Story'' was broadcast by

on 5 November 2020. The documentary explores what is it like to be suddenly disabled. On 24 September 2022, Gardner presented the

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special, ''Ukraine: Putin's Nuclear Threat''. The documentary focuses on the recent gains by

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and how it could provoke

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into using

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against

engaged in the

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Published works

Gardner's ''

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'' bestseller ''Blood and Sand'' (), describing his 25 years of Middle Eastern experiences, was published by Transworld in 2006. His book ''Far Horizons'' (), about unusual journeys to unusual places, was published in May 2009. Gardner's bestselling first novel, ''Crisis'', featuring the fictional SBS officer-turned MI6 operative Luke Carlton and a ruthless Colombian drug lord, was published in June 2016. His second novel, ''Ultimatum'', was published in June 2018 followed by the third Luke Carlton novel, ''Outbreak'' in 2021.

Honours and awards

In the

, Gardner was appointed an

(OBE) for services to journalism. As a Territorial Army officer, he was awarded the

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(TD) for past years of service on 29 January 2008 and its replacement, the

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(VRSM), on 8 March 2011. He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates of Law by the

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, the

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and the

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. He has also received the McWhirter Award for Bravery, Spain's El Mundo Prize for International Journalism, the Zayed Medal for Journalism and been voted Person of the Year by the '' UK Press Gazette''. He is a fellow of the

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(FRGS).

Personal life

Gardner remains a keen skier despite his injuries. After his spinal injury and having attended a training course for disabled skiers, he resumed

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using a sitski, a device that allows disabled people to ski while seated. In November 2011 he was elected honorary president of the

for six years. He is now a Patron of Disability Snowsport UK (DSUK). He is a

and presented a September 2009 BBC ''

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'' programme on

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. In 2019 he was elected President of the

(BTO). BBC Two's ''Being Frank'', his documentary, broadcast in November 2020 and 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.

References

External links

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