Charles Sabine

Charles Edward Sabine OBE (born 20 April 1960) is a British television journalist who worked for the US Network NBC News for twenty-six years, before becoming a global spokesman for patients and families with degenerative brain diseases.

Sabine was educated at Brentwood School, England, then obtained a first class honours degree in Media Studies from Westminster University, where he was tutored by BBC Radio Producer Charles Parker.

[5] The thirty-five countries and territories from which Sabine reported conflicts for NBC News, include the allied Gulf Wars in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait; wars in Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo and Chechnya; the US invasion of Haiti; the Genocide in Rwanda; the Ebola outbreak in Zaire; revolutions in Poland, Romania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia and sectarian conflicts in Lebanon, Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Pakistan, South Africa and Northern Ireland.

The problem, is finding the time to do it all.”[6][8] Among keynote lectures across four continents, Sabine has spoken at the Royal Society,[9] the European Parliament, the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific research,[10] the Italian Senate, the Harvard Club, and the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste (SISSA).

In her 2022 New Year Honours list, the Queen awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) to Sabine, "Philanthropist and Global Campaigner, Huntington’s Disease for Charitable and Voluntary Services".

Huntington's is often described as the 'harshest affliction known to mankind,' but unlike other diseases, the daily suffering it inflicts, is uniquely compounded by the fact that the vast majority of those families carrying the HD gene, feel compelled to hide that reality.

"[25] The first Hidden No More event took place on 30 June 2010, when more than a year of campaigning and fundraising by Sabine in partnership with Sir Michael Rawlins culminated in the launch of an All-Party Parliamentary Group for Huntington's disease in the UK Parliament.

It is not simply a slogan, so much as a commitment that we all must foster.The events of that day, and the extraordinary journey of Huntington's families to Rome from some of the poorest and most remote places on earth, was made into a film Dancing at the Vatican,[32] released on Amazon and YouTube in six languages.

Charles Sabine with his brother, John.
Charles Sabine with his brother John in London, February 2010. John, five years older than Charles, also had HD.