Jane corbin biography
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Corbin, Jane 1954-
PERSONAL: Born July 16, 1954, in Exeter, Devon, England; daughter of Aubrey and Olive Corbin; married John Maples (a politician), 1987; children: Tom, Rose. Education: King's College, London, B.A. (with honors). Religion:Church of England.
ADDRESSES: Office—c/o British Broadcasting Corp., 201 Wood Ln., London W12, England. Agent—Bill Hamilton, A. M. Heath and Co. Ltd., 79 St. Martin's Ln., London WC2N 4AA, England.
CAREER: Journalist and author. ITN-TV, foreign correspondent for Channel 4 News, c. 1983-88; British Broadcasting Corp., London, England, current-affairs and investigative journalist for BBC-TV, senior foreign correspondent for Panorama series, c. 1988—, presenter of live debate program Behind the Headlines, c. 1991—. Also worked for Thames Television and Granada Television.
AWARDS, HONORS: Rainier Award, Monte Carlo Television Festival, 1990, for film The Poisoned Land, the Dying Sea; Emmy Award nomination for best investigative journalist, American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, 1992, for "Saddam's Secret Arms Ring"; four awards for television journalism, Royal Television Society, including 1994, for "The Norway Channel"; shortlisted for Louis Gelber Award for nonfiction.
WRITINGS:
The Norway Channel: Th
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Jane Corbin
British journalist and film-maker
Jane Phillipa Corbin, Lady Maples (born 16 July 1954) is a British journalist and film-maker who has made over a hundred documentaries mainly for the BBC and its current affairs programme Panorama. She specialises in covering Central Asia, the Middle East and terrorism and has investigated many of the major human rights issues and global political and military events over the past three decades.
Early life
[edit]She originated in Devon. Her father was Aubrey Corbin, a test pilot who married Olive Amery, his second wife. She has a sister born in 1958.
Her mother was from Moretonhampstead. Her father was from Portsmouth, and trained with de Havilland. He was an airline pilot until 1939, then a test pilot for Airspeed, known for their gliders. Her parents moved to Kenya 1957,[1] then worked for the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific.[2] Her maternal uncles were John Amery, who was executed in 1945, and the Conservative MP Julian Amery (1919-96) who was Minister for Aviation from 1962-64.[3] Her half-sister Elizabeth Corbin married Edward Theodore Thring (1930-2022), grandson of Sir Arthur Thring, in October 1959 at Chelsea Old Church. Edward Thring was later the school bursar of Rend
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