Don Anderson was one of the BBC’s TV reporters in Saigon during the final days of the Vietnam War.
The country had been partitioned after Vietnamese nationalists drove out the French, with a Communist north and an American-backed south.
Despite the military might of the USA, the North Vietnamese Army and their Viet Cong allies won after a guerilla campaign that lasted almost 20 years.
Thousands of people, including American soldiers and diplomats, Vietnamese refugees and journalists scrambled to escape the city, which has since been renamed to Ho Chi Minh City in honour of the founder of the Vietnamese Communist Party.
Don Anderson joins Ciarán Dunbar to tell his incredible story of his days working in Vietnam, including accidentally finding himself in a minefield, his experiences of the front line, and the fall of Saigon in April 1975.
‘As we took off, the edge of the airport was on fire’: The NI journalist who escaped the fall of Saigon
