Journalist, war correspondent and adventurer, best known for the being the first person to interview the British double agent Kim Philby in Russia. Sayle is also well known for trekking through the Bolivian jungle in an attempt to track-down Che Guevara in 1967, covering the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, participating in the 1970 Mount Everest Expedition, sailing solo across the Atlantic ocean in the 1972 Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race. and for resigning from The Sunday Times newspaper after they refused to publish his controversial report on the 'Bloody Sunday' shootings.
