Jane Corbin's father was Aubrey Corbin, a test pilot who married Olive Amery, his second wife.
23 Facts About Jane Corbin
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Jane Corbin's father was from Portsmouth, and trained with de Havilland.
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Jane Corbin was an airline pilot until 1939, then a test pilot for Airspeed, known for their gliders.
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Jane Corbin's parents moved to Kenya 1957, then worked for the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific.
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Jane Corbin was part of the first intake of new journalists to be employed by Channel 4 News before its launch in November 1982.
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Jane Corbin reported on the miners' strike in the same year.
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Since joining the BBC's current affairs programme Panorama in 1988, Jane Corbin has made over a hundred documentaries working as a reporter in war zones and as an investigative journalist in general for the BBC.
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Jane Corbin has specialised in making films about Al-Qaeda since 1998, when she was one of the first reporters to identify the threat from Osama bin Laden in Death to America.
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Jane Corbin has reported extensively from the Middle East covering the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, including her inside account of the negotiations that led to the Oslo Peace Accords in 1993.
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Jane Corbin has reported extensively from the West Bank and Gaza covering the conflict - for example in the films 'The War of the Tunnels' in Gaza in 2014 and 'Price Tag Wars' on the activities of right-wing teenagers in Israel whom their own government calls 'terrorists'.
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Jane Corbin has reported extensively from Afghanistan and from Pakistan making programmes about the Taliban, women's rights and the war against militants on both sides of the border.
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Jane Corbin covered the hunt for Bin Laden in Afghanistan and Pakistan and made a one-hour documentary for BBC1, Hostage, on Al-Qaeda's tactic of hostage-taking in Iraq.
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In 2011 and 2012, Jane Corbin covered the uprisings in the Middle East known as the Arab Spring, reporting from Tahrir Square in Cairo as Hosni Mubarak was toppled as Egypt's president.
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On 1 October 2014, BBC Two broadcast Rwanda: The Untold Story, a documentary presented by Jane Corbin, which contained a controversial account of the Rwandan genocide In particular, it presented evidence alleging President Paul Kagame was involved in shooting down the plane of his predecessor Juvenal Habyarimana, an event which is partly blamed for causing the 1994 genocide.
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In 2015, in "Iraq: The Final Judgement" at the time of the Chilcot Report into the causes and impact of the Iraq War, Jane Corbin re-visited the places and people - from Basra to Baghdad - she had filmed over a decade of reporting on the coalition's war.
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In 2017, Jane Corbin presented a documentary on the Balfour Declaration, signed a hundred years before, which led to the creation of the state of Israel and the conflict that ensued between Zionist immigrants and the Palestinian natives.
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In November 2018, Jane Corbin wrote and presented a major investigation into the Russian Novichok nerve agent attack in Salisbury on the former Russian spy, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
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Jane Corbin predicted that he would be a major target for the Americans - Suleimani was eliminated by a US strike in Iraq nine months later.
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Jane Corbin has been reporting in 2020 on the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom for Panorama and her documentary "On the NHS Frontline" recounts how a hospital in the hotspot of the Midlands coped with COVID-19 during the peak of the epidemic.
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Jane Corbin has won the Royal Television Society Award on three occasions and is a former Emmy Award nominee.
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Jane Corbin has given expert testimony before various Committees of the House of Commons on Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq and on Al-Qaeda.
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Jane Corbin has written two books, Gaza First and Al Qaeda: the terror network that threatens the world.
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Jane Corbin has two children from her marriage to the late Conservative MP and peer Lord Maples, who died in 2012.