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The program was originally broadcast in 2005, and the presenter was Sue Lawley.

Music was Sue Lolly.

My castaway this week is a journalist. For the past 10 years, he's been a familiar figure on radio and television, explaining and analysing the world of the Middle East. Then last year, the reporter became the story. While filming in a suburb of Riyadh, he and his cameraman were attacked by gunmen. His colleague was killed and he was left for dead. But today he's back in the world of journalism that his would-be assassins were determined he'd leave forever. Confined in the

main to a wheelchair, he's once more a regular figure on our news bulletins, once again, delivering

his careful commentaries. This is a determined man who arrived at his present career after he'd absorbed

the world of Islam by living in it, worked as an investment banker for nine years, and then

taking himself off to journalism school. I want my life back, he says. It's never going to be the

same as it was before, but I'm determined to make the most of it. He is the BBC security correspondent,

Frank Gardner. Frank, none of us anticipates having our spirit tested in quite the way that you

have. Have you discovered depths of determination in you that you never knew you had?

I've had to, Sue. I mean, there are really two choices when you're made suddenly paraplegic. You can lie in bed and feel sorry for yourself and say, oh, no, I don't feel like doing physio today. I can't be bothered. Or you can get up and try to think, positively, think, okay, if I really work on this, perhaps I can build something up from the muscles that I still have got in my upper legs.

The problem with it is that there is no obvious light at the end of the tunnel.

You don't know what the goal is quite, do you?

Not really, because I mean, paraplegia is a sort of, it's a one-way street.

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