During a career in broadcasting and journalism spanning 65 years he has reported from 120 countries, including 16 wars, and nearly lost his life in a series of minefield explosions while covering the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.

In his autobiography, A Silver Plated Spoon,[2] the Duke wrote: "I played the washboard for a visiting skiffle group which has made more people regard me as a human being than anything else I have ever done".

[6] The B-52 jettisoned four H-bombs as it crashed bringing terror and spreading radioactivity around the Mediterranean village of Palomares when two of the nuclear devices cracked open on impact spilling lethal plutonium over a vast area.

[10] It was a BBC TV News colleague and sound recordist, Ted Stoddard, who had been killed and six other British and American journalists injured when five anti-personnel mines exploded.

[11][12] After spending months in hospital, and with his arm permanently disabled, he returned to work a year later, and more war assignments for the BBC in the Western Sahara,[13][14] Chad,[15] Ghana.

[16] Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, Mozambique, Nicaragua and the Lebanon[17][18][19] Among many major stories he reported for BBC TV News was the world's worst oil tanker spill at the time off the Brittany coast in France when the Amoco Cadiz split in two,[20] and the car bomb explosion at the Houses of Parliament in London that killed Airey Neave[21] the Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary and war hero who was the first British prisoner to escape from Colditz[22] On 23 February 1981, he was back in Madrid, and by chance the only journalist inside the Cortes, the Spanish parliament, when rebel civil guards burst in during an attempted coup to oust King Juan Carlos.

[24][25] Throughout the Falkland Islands conflict Morris was in Buenos Aires, one of only a handful of British journalists allowed into Argentina to report from the enemy side during a war.

[38] Morris also reported from the various frontlines during the civil war in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,[39] including Srebrenica where 7,500 Muslims were rounded up and shot by the advancing Serb forces led by General Ratko Mladic.

[41][42][43] Other major assignments he covered for the BBC and Sky News was the first television interview with Anthony Blunt[44] after the master spy's exposure by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; Spain's re-opening of the border with the Rock of Gibraltar[45] 13 years after it was closed by Franco; the 1989 earthquake in San Francisco;[46] the fall of the Berlin Wall;[47] the attempted coup in Russia against president Mikhail Gorbachev;[48] the release after 27 years in prison and first face-to-face interview with Nelson Mandela.

[69] As a producer and director, commissions included a television series, Only Food and Forces filmed in Afghanistan, Oman, Norway, the Falkland Islands and the United Kingdom.

[74][75] Christopher is married to Mary[76] (née Frawley), retired Operations Director of Knightsbridge,[77] a care village, nursing home and medical centre in Trim, County Meath, Ireland.