Frank Gardner
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Francis Rolleston Gardner (born 31 July 1961) is a British journalist and author.
He is now the BBC's Security Correspondent.
Early life
Gardner was born on July 31, 1961. Robert Neil Gardner (1922–2010) and Evelyn Grace Rolleston (1923–2014) were both diplomats, and when he was six years old, he moved from the United Kingdom to the Hague in the Netherlands. John Davy Rolleston, a physician, was his grandfather. Gardner was encouraged by his teachers to partake in biathlon, allowing him to travel to Austria to train with the British Army biathlon team.
Gardner was 16 when he first met the Arabian explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger and was invited to the explorer's home in Chelsea. Partly as a result, and partly because knowing the Arabic language would make him employable in that segment of the world, he was determined to study Arabic. Gardner spent time in a brick factory before heading backpacking from Morocco to Istanbul, but then went backpacking from Morocco to Istanbul. He then travelled to Manila, Philippines, to hike in Luzon's mountains. He returned to study at the University of Exeter, graduating in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons) in Arabic and Islamic Studies.
Personal life
Despite his injuries, Gardner is still a keen skier. He returned to skiing after recovering from a spinal injury and attending a disabled skier training course. A sitski is a ski that helps disabled people ski while seated. He was named honorary president of the Ski Club of Great Britain in November 2011 for six years. Disability Snowsport UK is now a Patron of Disability Snowsport UK (DSUK).
Sir Peter Scott, a birdwatcher, appeared on BBC Archive Hour in September 2009. He was elected President of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) in 2019.
Being Frank, his documentary, appeared on BBC Two in November 2020 and explored what it is like to be disabled. Gardner discussed his recent divorce from his wife of 22 years openly; the two are lifelong friends. He has a relationship with BBC weather presenter Elizabeth Rizzini, whom he encountered in the lift at work.
Career
Gardner was first promoted to second lieutenant (on probation) on May 23, 1984. He went from the general list to the Royal Green Jackets' 4th Volunteer Battalion on September 30, 1984, on probation, and was given seniority from February 23, 1984. His appointment was confirmed, and his rank as second lieutenant was dated to 23 May 1984 with seniority dating back to May 1982. On September 30, 1985, he was promoted to lieutenant, with seniority from 23 May 1984. He was promoted to captain on October 1, 1990, with seniority starting on February 1989.
Gardner was promoted to captain of the Regular Army Reserve on November 11, 1993. He returned to the Territorial Army on April 24, 1997, while serving in the Adjutant General's Corps's Educational and Training Branch. On July 1, 2006, he was promoted to Major in the Territorial Army.
Gardner served as a marketing manager for Gulf Exports from 1984 to 1986, as well as in trading and sales for Saudi International Bank from 1986 to 1990. He worked with Robert Fleming Bank from 1990 to 1995, becoming the Middle East Director. He spent nine years as an investment banker.
In 1995, he left banking and joined BBC World as a producer and reporter. In 1997, he became the BBC's first full-time Gulf correspondent, beginning as a freelance stringer in Dubai. Gardner was named in 1999 as the Cairo correspondent in charge of the BBC Middle East bureau, but he travelled around the region. Gardner specialized in reporting stories relating to the War on Terror since the 11 September attacks in New York.
Gardner was shot six times and critically wounded in an al-Qaida attack on June 6, 2004, while reporting from Al-Suwaidi, a district in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that is well-known for extremism, and was critically wounded. Simon Cumbers, an Irish cameraman, was shot and killed. Gardner was struck in his torso by bullets (some of whom were passed through his shoulder and leg) and was left partially paralysed in the legs, and he has since used a wheelchair. Against Gardner's official Saudi Arabian government minders' advice, the pair had been filming for more than half an hour. The Saudi government had promised compensation, but they have never paid. He returned to reporting for the BBC in mid-2005, after 14 surgical operations, seven months in hospital, and several months of rehabilitation. He used a wheelchair or a frame. Despite his injury, he still covers news from the field, including Afghanistan and Colombia, but he usually focuses on top news from a BBC studio.
Adel al-Dhubaiti, one of the shooters who fired Gardner and Cumbers, was captured and executed by Saudi authorities in January 2016.
In September 2012, he revealed that Queen Elizabeth II had been upset that Abu Hamza al-Masri could not be arrested. The BBC apologised later that day for the leak.
Since 2011, Gardner has appeared on a number of documentaries for the BBC. Gardner retraced Hergé's character Tintin's journey from Brussels to Moscow in 2011 – Tintin in the Land of the Soviets – during his first ever journey. Frank Gardner's Return to Saudi Arabia, Jeddah, Eastern Province, and the Riyadh hospital, where he recovered from his attack in 2004. Gardner appeared in an episode of the BBC's family history programme Who Do You Think You Are? in September 2015 Gardner was included in a series titled "Who Do You Think You Are?" In which he discovered that he was directly descendant from William The Conqueror, he learned that he was descended from him. Gardner appeared in the BBC Two-part documentary Birds of Paradise: The Ultimate Quest in 2016. They followed the King of Saxony during a trip to Papua New Guinea to seek the elusive birds-of-paradise (a lifelong ambition of Gardner's as a keen birdwatcher). The show was broadcast on 3 and 10 February 2017.
Gardner canceled out of hosting the Counter-Terrorism and Specialist Security Awards (CTSS) in March 2012 due to fears that doing so would damage the BBC's impartiality. Gardner chaired the keynote stage for the first two days of the security industry conference IFSEC International, which took place in London's ExCeL exhibition centre in June 2018.
Gardner appeared in Channel 4's coverage of the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in his capacity as President of the GB Ski Club in 2016.
Being Frank: The Frank Gardner Story was broadcast on BBC Two on November 5, 2020. What is it like to be suddenly disabled in this series?
Gardner appeared on BBC News special " Ukraine: Putin's Nuclear Challenge," on September 24th, 2022. The documentary examines Ukrainian forces' recent gains and how it could compel President Putin to use tactical nuclear weapons against Ukrainian forces fighting in the Russo-Ukrainian War.