Channel 4 News at 25: Gaby Rado
Updated on 02 November 2007
Gaby Rado was one of Channel 4 News's great foreign correspondents. Here Tim Lambon recalls a late night chat over an Afghan meal waiting for the liberation of Kabul, post 9/11. They were talking about their favourite television moments. And Gaby, like Tim, picked stories far from his normal beat.
There was no glass in the windows and the chill of the Hindu Kush winter was already fighting the warmth radiating from the wood fired stove in the middle of the room.
Gaby and I had just finished another Afghan dinner - all flat bread, kebabs and chopped parsley with lemon. As the steam rose from our tin mugs of instant coffee, we recalled our favourite moments working on Channel 4 News.
He's sadly missed and although you don't see him in this clip, know that Gaby felt this was one of his favourite moments.
I recounted the wonderful day I spent immersed in the white marble dust of a sculptor's studio and Gaby said, "Funny that. Of all the wars and death and destruction I covered, the one I really loved was earlier this year....."
And he went on to talk about how over the moon he was when he'd had the chance to interview Charlie Watts, the drummer for the Rolling Stones. He laughed as he remembered Charlie saying that he really couldn't remember the 60s.
And then rhapsodised about how he had sat and listened, as a line up of some of the most talented jazz musicians of our time jammed with Watts.
It was one of those moments when a correspondent's eyes mist over.
Much like ours do when we think of Gaby and what a great friend and colleague he was on the road and in the newsroom. He's sadly missed and although you don't see him in this clip, know that Gaby felt this was one of his favourite moments.
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Gaby Rado died in Northern Iraq, March 2003.
