UK viewers can watch Being Frank: The Frank Gardner Story on Thursday 5 November at 21:00 GMT on BBC Two and on BBC iPlayer. Stream Tracks and Playlists from Being Frank documentary on your desktop or mobile device. "It shouldn't stop you doing what you want to do. Zaghari-Ratcliffe sentenced to a year in prison1, 'Shocked' man buys Google web address for £22, Man living alone on island to leave after 32 years3, Patients suffer at home as Covid chokes hospitals4, 13 major looks from the Oscars red carpet5, US teen's Snapchat rant reaches Supreme Court6, Nomadland, Hopkins and Kaluuya share Oscars glory7, Anger as India orders Twitter to remove Covid posts8, EU hints at summer return for US travellers9, The salmon you buy in the future may be farmed on land10. From Emerald Headingley Stadium. Terence Fisher lets rip with the 60s special effects. This week, there is a chicken run for Richard, while Johnny operates some heavy machinery. In two houses, the frank that traveled the world unhindered. For the uninitiated, the race to catch the first bluefin tuna of the season is a confusing blur of beards, barbs and radar bleeps. Facebook v Apple: The ad tracking row heats up. He has worked with renowned psychiatrist Prof Neil Greenberg to explore the emotional impact of the trauma. Now, he has gone behind those headlines to expose the things about disability we never talk about. The talking was also key to Gardner accepting and understanding his impairments. There is a grim photograph of Gardner on the floor, his white clothes blood-stained, propping himself up. Being Frank: The Frank Gardner Story 9pm, BBC Two The BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner presents this film examining his life as a paraplegic after being shot while working in … http://www.hollywood.comA boy (Logan Miller) learns his father (Jim Gaffigan) has a secret family. ". He is now a Patron of Disability Snowsport UK (DSUK). He eventually concludes it is too precarious and reveals a fall would break both his legs as the bones have become weakened. In a hair-raising moment in the documentary Gardner attempts to go down a steep ravine in Colombia on horseback. Inside the UK's last lesbian bars. "We got ambushed - al-Qaeda. It just brought it all back. He turned to journalism in his 30s and is now the BBC's security correspondent. Doors slide open, medics rush forward. I was the Bbc's First-ever Security correspondent Frank Gardner BBC News in Saudi Arabia I see my life. The UK PM and the flat refit: What's the row about? What they don't see is all the stuff that we have to deal with beneath the surface.". © 2021 BBC. The documentary gave him a chance to reflect on those moments and show the long-lasting, often over-looked, impact such a trauma can cause. The best of the BBC, with the latest news and sport headlines, weather, TV & radio highlights and much more from across the whole of BBC Online Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story is the official documentary about maverick Manchester comedian Frank Sidebottom, and the life and art of his hidden creator Chris Sievey. Inside the UK's last lesbian bars, Three-day Chernobyl evacuation lasted 35 years. I have gone to such lengths to understand and empathise with the culture and the religion of this region and the reward is six bullets in the belly?". Sixteen years on, he is exploring what it means to suddenly become disabled. Being Frank: The Frank Gardner Story. Can Western brands recover in China after backlash? Gardner, 59, a fluent Arabic speaker, spent years living and working in the Middle East. I was shot six times by al Qaeda, leaving me partially paralyzed at the age of 4316 years after I was attacked my job as security correspondent for the Bbc's … While he is rightly vocal about the discrimination he faces, such as wheelchairs being misplaced by staff at airports, he's not known for being emotional. The reality is when you come out of hospital you find other ways of doing it, but at the time it was very, very depressing.". They are given plenty of good tips about making homemade versions of takeaway favourites, while upping their veg intake. Video, 'We do like a rave!' The first bullet went through Gardner's shoulder, the second in his leg. He was a student in Cairo before working as a banker in Bahrain. Gardner remains a keen skier despite his injuries. Sometimes he has "mallet days" where it feels like someone is "taking a huge mallet and whacking the side of my knee - it lasts from five to 10 seconds, but it's so painful I can hardly speak". I'm Frank Gardner. Plus: triumphs, but mainly disasters – last of The Apprentice Best Bits. He was paralysed from the knees down. AK, The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher, 1968), 2.35am, Horror ChannelA classic Hammer version of bestselling occult novelist Dennis Wheatley’s chiller. I could hear children playing in the corridor and they weren't mine, and just the thought that I would never again run into the sea with my kids or climb a tree with them. An insightful look at Gardner’s trauma and its consequences. With Tracee Ellis Ross, Golden Brooks, Persia White, Jill Marie Jones. The 59-year-old journalist and cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia 16 years ago. A crowd started to gather around him but no one came to his aid. In November 2011 he was elected honorary president of the Ski Club of Great Britain for six years. FRANK GARDENER: On a warm, starlit night, the helicopter touches down on the roof of the hospital with a swirl of rotor blades. In … "I was in floods of tears as I let everything out," Gardner says. He did not become bitter at the unfairness he initially felt, but this documentary enabled him to scrutinise the facts again. Directed by Sheldon Epps. Inside the UK's last lesbian bars, Three-day Chernobyl evacuation lasted 35 years. "Don't let this stuff be a hindrance, don't be embarrassed about it," he says. Gardner was shot six times and paralysed, his cameraman, killed. "People look at somebody in a wheelchair, like me, and they probably think 'poor guy, I wonder if he needs a bit of help?' It is remorseless in its portrayal of Gardner's life and shows him changing his suprapubic catheter - a tube that drains urine from the bladder via a cut in his stomach. Frank Gardner was shot six times by al-Qaeda gunmen in Saudi Arabia. Gardner was shot six times and paralysed, his cameraman, killed. And the frank that came after the Bbc's tonight that ABC has come under fire from gunman in a suburb of the Saudi capital. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Frank Bruno (right) took on Mike Tyson (left) in 1989, before a rematch in 1996. "My disability has hugely affected my ability to get on air [at work] in interesting places," he says, often because those places can be unpredictable. That’s how I … Arsenal v Molde follows at 8pm. Here’s what to watch this evening, The BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner presents this film examining his life as a paraplegic after being shot while working in Saudi Arabia in 2004. What happens to your body in extreme heat? You knew that Being Frank: The Frank Gardner Story (BBC Two) was going to be unflinchingly intimate from the start. Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive. "My insides were shot to pieces," he says. I love doing nature photography, my kids are such wonderful girls and I'm very lucky to have a lovely girlfriend. 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