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The Reporter podcast: Bullimore and the coin toss
Gary Adshead’s 40-year journalism career has been spent pursuing the truth, no matter how ugly, dangerous – or ridiculous. From crooks and crimes to state secrets and heroic rescues, we take you behind the headlines.
This week on The Reporter podcast, Michael Thomson and Gary Adshead discuss the extraordinary rescue of missing round-the-world yachtsman Tony Bullimore.
Adshead was the lone TV journalist on the warship sent to find the missing millionaire, who had been in freezing seas for days and was feared dead.
Bullimore was astoundingly found alive – but the media dogfight behind the scenes had only just begun.
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Heads you keep the story, tails you lose: Reporting the Tony Bullimore rescue
“There’s something in the water,” I pointed and yelled from the deck of the warship. “There. He’s alive. There. It’s him.” But it still wasn’t my story to tell.