Europa League football: Ludogorets v Tottenham 5.15pm, BT Sport 2. In 2004 Gardner and his cameraman Simon Cumbers became the headline. Now, he has gone behind those headlines to expose the things about disability we never talk about. "People look at somebody in a wheelchair, like me, and they probably think 'poor guy, I wonder if he needs a bit of help?' Plus: triumphs, but mainly disasters – last of The Apprentice Best Bits. Frank Sidebottom, remembered fondly as the man with the papier-mâché head, was the court jester of the Manchester music and comedy scene for over 25 years, but only a privileged few knew the man inside. 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. Ammar Kalia, It’s an easy fix for Gregg Wallace and Chris Bavin this week: in Glasgow, Aliyah and Ajaz eat separate meals, but their differences are obviously bridgeable. The BBC correspondent recalls being shot while working in Saudi Arabia in 2004. He is now a Patron of Disability Snowsport UK (DSUK). Although he can now stand with callipers and a frame it's "more practical to stick with the wheelchair". Against the odds Gardner survived, but his injuries were life-changing. But he continues to give most things a go even if they seem outrageous to others. The big moments, like the attack itself, he has revisited many times. 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. It is 16 years since BBC correspondent Frank Gardner and his cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia. "Don't let this stuff be a hindrance, don't be embarrassed about it," he says. Group B action. "I'm not complacent about it at all, because I know that PTSD can rise up and get you years late. Gardner was shot six times and paralysed, his cameraman, killed. "It's been about encouraging other people. BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner . Wednesday, 4th November 2020, 5:00 pm. 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. Large sections of his "squibbly bits" (intestines) were removed, leaving him with a colostomy bag. Think about all the things you can.". Gardner was shot six times and paralysed, his cameraman, killed. October 29, 2020 6:00 am (Updated 9:42 am) Cocooned. Photograph: Curious Films. Football news, scores, results, fixtures and videos from the Premier League, Championship, European and World Football from the BBC. http://www.hollywood.comA boy (Logan Miller) learns his father (Jim Gaffigan) has a secret family. The documentary is broadcast as the UK marks 25 years of the Disability Discrimination Act, a landmark law which outlawed discrimination against disabled people. 73 Followers. Sixteen years on, he is exploring what it means to suddenly become disabled. From Emerald Headingley Stadium. Being Frank: The Frank Gardner Story. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. "Then they stood over me and put the rest into me". Paul Howlett. He was a student in Cairo before working as a banker in Bahrain. But will the contraband temptations distract him from impressing Don (Christopher Meloni)? Video'We do like a rave!' Phil Harrison, Greg Davies and his assistant Alex Horne continue their surrealist game show with their group of willing comics: Daisy May Cooper, Johnny Vegas, Katherine Parkinson, Mawaan Rizwan and Richard Herring. 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. For the uninitiated, the race to catch the first bluefin tuna of the season is a confusing blur of beards, barbs and radar bleeps. Taskmasters ... Greg Davies and Alex Horne in their thrones. "It shouldn't stop you doing what you want to do. Graeme Virtue, O-T Fagbenle’s has-been pop star Maxxx continues his cringe-inducing crawl back to the top of the charts by heading to a music biz party with manager Tamzin (Pippa Bennett-Warner). 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?". I'm Frank Gardner. Podcast: Ouch - where real disability talk happens. With Tracee Ellis Ross, Golden Brooks, Persia White, Jill Marie Jones. BBC star Frank Gardener has let the cameras in on his private life for a new documentary - Being Frank: The Frank Gardener Story. Frank Bruno (right) took on Mike Tyson (left) in 1989, before a rematch in 1996. Can Western brands recover in China after backlash? Jack Seale, The final package of boardroom reminiscences looks back on the most striking successes and failures in the history of The Apprentice. A crowd started to gather around him but no one came to his aid. Chelsea boss Frank Lampard says life as a football manager is much harder than years spent as a player because of its "consuming" nature. Being Frank, BBC2 2020-11-05T13:07:00 Showing the truth about disability, leaky colostomy bags and all, is at the heart of Curious doc about the BBC security correspondent The UK PM and the flat refit: What's the row about? 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. Frank Gardner was shot six times by al-Qaeda gunmen in Saudi Arabia. He did not become bitter at the unfairness he initially felt, but this documentary enabled him to scrutinise the facts again. It is a rigmarole he must endure every eight weeks. 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 … "It was pretty grim going back. Read about our approach to external linking. Off camera, a man with a pistol gets out of a car. Toni believes she's dating a married man as well. This week, there is a chicken run for Richard, while Johnny operates some heavy machinery. What happens to your body in extreme heat? The talking was also key to Gardner accepting and understanding his impairments. Recently it became stuck and he had to go to A&E. "My insides were shot to pieces," he says. In two houses, the frank that traveled the world unhindered. Stream Tracks and Playlists from Being Frank documentary on your desktop or mobile device. In November 2011 he was elected honorary president of the Ski Club of Great Britain for six years. 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. It opened Gardner's mind and he re-learned how to ski and scuba dive. 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Write it down in your laptop and password protect it - you may never use it but get it out there, I am not complacent - I know PTSD can rise up and get you years later, 'A person cannot even die peacefully in Delhi' Video, 'A person cannot even die peacefully in Delhi', 'We do like a rave!' Hearing that depressing sound of those monitoring machines. Betrayal is "exactly what it felt like", says Gardner, who had spent half his life understanding the customs and cultures of the Middle East, "As I lay on the Tarmac with all these bullets inside me, bleeding internally, I remember thinking 'this is so unfair'. Arsenal v Molde follows at 8pm. "There's so much to live for. 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". As well as revealing the realities of operating in a news environment and reporting on location, Gardner meets others with recent disabilities and discusses his own emotional responses to his life-changing injury. I love doing nature photography, my kids are such wonderful girls and I'm very lucky to have a lovely girlfriend. 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. BBC Two - Being Frank- The Frank Gardner Story, Patients suffer at home as Covid chokes hospitals. An insightful look at Gardner’s trauma and its consequences. "We got ambushed - al-Qaeda. The journalist reveals how he became a BBC correspondent in the 1990s, and the film includes never-before-seen footage of the last report he made with … "They had to give me morphine and the doctor was literally having to brace himself against the table to pull this thing out," he says. They were filming in a residential district in Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh, following gun battles between the police and al-Qaeda - the extremist Islamist group behind the 9/11 attacks in America. 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 … It just brought it all back. FRANK GARDENER: On a warm, starlit night, the helicopter touches down on the roof of the hospital with a swirl of rotor blades. The 59-year-old journalist and cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia 16 years ago. In footage of the assault, released for the first time in the documentary, Gardner is seen chatting to one of their minders while Cumbers films the quiet neighbourhood with children looking on. For Gardner "top of the tree" is managing the nerve pain in his legs which hasn't ceased since the attack. Frank is a 59-year-old journalist and author, currently working for the BBC as a security correspondent. In … Inside the UK's last lesbian bars. Joan's impressive new Boyfriend, Frank, turns out to be too good to be true after his wife Shows up at Joan's office. IPL cricket 1.45pm, Sky Sports Cricket The qualifier phase begins. There is a grim photograph of Gardner on the floor, his white clothes blood-stained, propping himself up. Explainer: Did 1995 change everything for disabled people? On a warm, starlit night, the helicopter touches down on the roof of the hospital with a swirl of rotor blades. Inside the UK's last lesbian bars, Three-day Chernobyl evacuation lasted 35 years. "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. Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive. You knew that Being Frank: The Frank Gardner Story (BBC Two) was going to be unflinchingly intimate from the start. Video, 'We do like a rave!' Former British world heavyweight champion Frank Bruno is recovering after being treated in hospital for pneumonia. Being Frank: The Frank Gardner Story. "I was in floods of tears as I let everything out," Gardner says. Gardner was shot six times and paralysed, his cameraman, killed. BBC security correspondent FRANK GARDNER says he still dreams of being able to run and jump but has learned to live with his life-changing injuries from a terrorist ambush 16 years ago – and reveals he has fallen in love with a TV weather girl . 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. He's now exposing the things about disability we never talk about. BBC Two Thursday: Being Frank: the Frank Gardner Story; (BBC Two, 9pm) By The Newsroom. The first bullet went through Gardner's shoulder, the second in his leg. Returning to his trauma 16 years on hasn't altered Gardner's mindset on disability, but it has given him chance to pass his knowledge and expertise on to others. VideoThree-day Chernobyl evacuation lasted 35 years, The salmon you buy in the future may be farmed on land, How Myanmar coup caused its healthcare to vanish. What they don't see is all the stuff that we have to deal with beneath the surface.". AK, The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher, 1968), 2.35am, Horror ChannelA classic Hammer version of bestselling occult novelist Dennis Wheatley’s chiller. Super League rugby: Wigan Warriors v Huddersfield Giants 7.45pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Terence Fisher lets rip with the 60s special effects. Listen to Being Frank documentary | SoundCloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create.. 8 Tracks. For more disability news, follow BBC Ouch on Twitter and Facebook and subscribe to the weekly podcast on BBC Sounds. But it is the smaller ones like returning to the intensive care unit in London where he was flown for treatment, which visibly moved him. So has he dealt with the trauma psychologically? He turned to journalism in his 30s and is now the BBC's security correspondent. AK, The competitive fishing series returns, pitting three nimble boats from New England against four wily local captains off the coast of North Carolina. That’s how I … Cumbers was killed and Gardner paralysed from the knee down. Christopher Lee stars as suave mystic master the Duc de Richleau, battling satanist Charles Gray for the soul of young Patrick Mower. Frank Gardner: BBC star details being '2 hours' from death after terrorist ambush FRANK GARDNER, BBC security correspondent, recalled the harrowing day he … "I want people to see the iceberg beneath the surface," Gardner says of his new BBC documentary, Being Frank. 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 Gardner remains a keen skier despite his injuries. It's cathartic.". He's now exposing the things about disability we never talk about. "I had so much wrong with me and the frustration of being just imprisoned in that bed. He has worked with renowned psychiatrist Prof Neil Greenberg to explore the emotional impact of the trauma. Prof Greenberg told him: "Don't waste any emotional energy on the things that you used to be able to do. Facebook v Apple: The ad tracking row heats up. Directed by Sheldon Epps. Gardner, 59, a fluent Arabic speaker, spent years living and working in the Middle East. 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. In a hair-raising moment in the documentary Gardner attempts to go down a steep ravine in Colombia on horseback. He was paralysed from the knees down. But he sees this trial and error as just another part of being disabled. "I want people to see that despite all of this... you're still able to lead a pretty normal life.". They shot us at point blank range.". Being Frank: The Frank Gardner Story (Photo: BBC/Curious Films) By Frank Gardner. Sixteen years after being shot by al-Qaeda, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner explores what it is like to suddenly become … Gardner returned to work 10 months after the attack with his first foreign trip a month later. After his spinal injury and having attended a training course for disabled skiers, he resumed skiing using a sitski, a device that allows disabled people to ski while seated. ". You may never use it, but get it all out there. He eventually concludes it is too precarious and reveals a fall would break both his legs as the bones have become weakened. 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. India's Covid sick struggle to get treatment at home due to black marketing of oxygen and drugs. These include cringe-inducing pitches, nauseating food failures and, on the other side of the ledger, a few choice moments of genuine inspiration. I was the Bbc's First-ever Security correspondent Frank Gardner BBC News in Saudi Arabia I see my life. Inside the UK's last lesbian bars, Three-day Chernobyl evacuation lasted 35 years. 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. 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