Adam Kellett-Long hobbles towards recovery

Adam Kellett-Long, distinguished as the correspondent who told the world about the Berlin Wall in 1961, has emerged from hospital after what his surgeon called "massive surgery" for total replacement of his right knee.

"It's a bit sore and stiff and I am walking (or hobbling!) with two sticks," he says. "But the prognosis is good and I should be much more mobile within a matter of weeks."

Kellett-Long was the only Western correspondent in East Berlin in 1961 when the wall went up and scored a world scoop.

He retired in 1989 - coincidentally the year the wall came down - after more than three decades as correspondent and manager in some of the world's toughest hot-spots including Moscow at the height of the Cold War.

Adam Kellett-Long’s report from Berlin in The Guardian on 14 August 1961.

Adam Kellett-Long’s BBC podcast ‘The Day the Wall Went Up’. ■