Fearless,intrepid (brave in the face of danger) and imaginative, the TV journalist Sue Lloyd-Roberts is an extraordinary role model, and as I realised at her memorial serviceThe memorial service for the fearless and imaginative reporter Sue Lloyd-Roberts,who died from myeloid leukemia in October at 64, was a grand broadcasting event, and appropriate for the career of one of the bravest and best of her generation.
It was held at All Souls church,by the BBC’s front door in Langham Place. The crowd that belted out Onward Christian Soldiers – a hymn so provocative in its sentiments that the Anglican church doesn’t exercise it any more, and the vicar felt obliged to excuse anyone who couldn’t stomach its militaristic message from singing – was studded with faces familiar from the telly.
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Source: theguardian.com