Reviewed by Maggie Perkovic Feb 19th '09.
As a frustrated reporter I really enjoy any books written by reporters or newscasters and when I received the 'Road Taken' I was really impressed.
In October 1984, it was his report on the famine in Ethiopia that actually brought it to the public gaze and sent shockwaves around the world.
Hundreds of millions of pounds were raised and millions of lives were saved. The Live Aid concert was a direct result of Bob Geldof seeing that report and was watched by half the planet. Michael Buerk has reported on some of the biggest stories in our lifetime, the Fixborough chemical plant fire, the Birmingham pub bombing and Lockerbie.
He was in Buenos Aires at the start of the Falklands War, he reported the death throes of apartheid in South Africa.
He has been the face of the BBC flagship Evening News for many years and has fronted everything from the BBC1 series '999' to the erudite Radio4 programme, 'The Moral Maze'.
In this book we learn of his extraordinary childhood and his long and happy marriage to Christine and his joy in the birth of his twins and subsequent fatherhood.
Brilliantly written, at times wildly funny, at times heart wrenchingly moving, this is an account of a unique life, lived to the full. I can't recommend it enough.
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