Caroline Wyatt (born 21 April 1967) is an Australian-born English journalist. She presents the Saturday edition of ''PM'' on

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. She has worked as a

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journalist for over 25 years, as defence correspondent until August 2014, when she replaced Robert Pigott as religious affairs correspondent until June 2016, when she revealed that she had been diagnosed with

multiple sclerosis Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease resulting in damage to myelinthe insulating covers of nerve cellsin the brain and spinal cord. As a demyelinating disease, MS disrupts the nervous system's ability to Action potential, transmit ...

Early life

Born in Darlinghurst, a suburb of Sydney, to an Anglo-Irish father and a Polish mother, Wyatt was adopted by a British diplomat,Caroline Wyatt • Q and A • TV Newsroom
Accessed 19 August 2009. and his

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-born wife. She has two brothers. Wyatt was educated at the

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Convent of the Sacred Heart School in Woldingham,

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, and then studied English and German at Southampton University, which also included six months of study at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey at the

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campus in the US. After graduating from Southampton, she studied for a post-graduate diploma in

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at City University, London.

Career

Wyatt joined the

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in 1991 as a news and current affairs trainee. She undertook work for ''

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'' and the local station in Birmingham. On completion of her training, she was based in Germany between 1993 and 2000, first as the business reporter, then Berlin correspondent in the reunified German capital at the time of the withdrawal of both Russian and

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occupation armies from divided Berlin and the 50th Anniversary of the liberation of the

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concentration camp, where she found out that her grandfather had been held prisoner during

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. Wyatt then became the

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correspondent on the

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(in the former capital of

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). She was then the BBC's Moscow correspondent in Russia until 2003, when she became the network's main reporter in Paris, France. In October 2007, Wyatt became the BBC defence correspondent.

War reporting

Wyatt reported from Baghdad during the December 1998, American bombing campaign of Iraq. She later covered the 1999 Kosovo conflict in the Balkans peninsula of south eastern Europe, from both

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and neighboring Albania. Following the

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on the United States in 2001, she reported on the U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan during 2001–2002, from the military headquarters of the Afghan Northern Alliance. She also covered the later invasion and subsequent

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(Second Persian Gulf War) in the spring of 2003 as an "

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" with the

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troops in and around

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. In 2003 she also reported from Paris. Wyatt chaired the selection jury of the 2008 "Bayeux-Calvados Awards" for war correspondents.Official website of the Bayeux Calvados Award: Caroline Wyatt
Accessed 20 August 2008.

Radio presenting

Wyatt has presented for

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on the Radio 4 network programmes ''

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'', '' From Our Own Correspondent'' and the Saturday edition of '' PM'' (of which she is currently the regular presenter), as well as '' Europe Today'', ''

Newshour ''Newshour'' is BBC World Service's flagship international news and current affairs radio programme, which is broadcast twice daily: weekdays at 1400, weekends at 1300 and nightly at 2100 (UK time). There is also an additional online programme ...

'' and '' Outlook'' on the

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. She has also co-presented ''

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'' on the

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network.

Personal life

In June 2016, it was announced that Wyatt had been diagnosed with

. She would remain with the BBC, but in a studio-based role within radio. In January 2017, Wyatt travelled to Mexico for experimental treatment of her illness, involving a stem-cell transplant.

References

External links

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