I Was There Kate Adie on Tiananmen Square

In a longform interview Kate recalls how she was wounded by gunfire and narrowly escaped death herself as she and her cameraman remained in the line of fire while an estimated 2000 prodemocracy demonstrators were shot down by Chinese government troops Kate reviews the reports she made on the ground with additional insight from leading historian Professor Steve Tsang and draws on the BBCs archive to assess how filmmakers have portrayed China before and after the upheaval