Jane Phillipa Corbin, Lady Maples (born 16 July 1954) is a British journalist and film-maker who has made over a hundred documentaries mainly for the BBC and its current affairs programme Panorama.
She specialises in covering Central Asia, the Middle East and terrorism and has investigated many of the major human rights issues and global political and military events over the past three decades.
Corbin has reported extensively from the Middle East covering the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, including her inside account of the negotiations that led to the Oslo Peace Accords in 1993.
After filming the British forces' invasion and taking of Basra she was again given access to the coalition Iraq Survey Group as they searched fruitlessly for the WMDs that had been used to justify the war.
Corbin has reported extensively from Afghanistan and from Pakistan making programmes about the Taliban, women's rights and the war against militants on both sides of the border.
In 2011 and 2012, Corbin covered the uprisings in the Middle East known as the Arab Spring, reporting from Tahrir Square in Cairo as Hosni Mubarak was toppled as Egypt's president.
Her report from Syria of human rights abuses against children and women in the town of Dera'a resulted in cases being brought before the International Court of Justice against members of President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Corbin has investigated the rise of the Islamic State and the western vulnerabilities it has identified - for example in her film 'Terror on the Beach" on the attack by a 'lone wolf' on tourists in Tunisia.
In 2017, Corbin presented a documentary on the Balfour Declaration, signed a hundred years before, which led to the creation of the state of Israel and the conflict that ensued between Zionist immigrants and the Palestinian natives.
Corbin has been reporting in 2020 on the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom for Panorama and her documentary "On the NHS Frontline" recounts how a hospital in the hotspot of the Midlands coped with COVID-19 during the peak of the epidemic.