“Think Oman, and you think desert. But what we found was mile after mile of barren, spiky rubble, cliffs of jutting sharp rocks, unrelieved by a single piece of vegetation or water. We drove for hours across what felt like the surface of the moon. We saw goats foraging but couldn't work out what they could possibly be eating.”

British journalist and television presenter

Fiona Bruce is a British journalist, newsreader and television presenter. She joined the BBC in 1989 as a researcher on Panorama, and later became the first female newsreader on BBC News at Ten. She went on to present several major BBC programmes, including BBC News at Six, Crimewatch, Real Story, Antiques Roadshow and Fake or Fortune?. Since 10 January 2019, she has presented BBC One's Question Time.