The BBC radio network broadcasted to 50 million listeners in 60 languages, and this was the beginning of an exciting adventure.

She began by travelling to Gaza, where she worked for Frank Gardner and ended up setting up an office with BBC Arabic Service Reporter Fayed Abu Shannalah.

“There were very few journalists working out of the Strip and I thought it would be worth trying to live there so I moved there and suddenly found myself in a place of conflict,” she said.

Kylie worked with a small team for a year in Gaza, then moved to Cabul to report war-torn Afghanistan.

The move surprised her.

“I thought Gaza was good preparation and I thought I would handle Afghanistan but it took it to a new level. People were just starting to recover from the fighting on their door step and they were sceptical of foreigners.”

Kylie used her femininity to get both sides of the story and she would often visit houses and talk politics with the men and then talk to the women about their issues.

Of the stories she has written, the glimpses of the Afghanistan women’s plight stands out in her mind.

“The stories I remember from my time there were about the women trying to find their feet and the first women getting their driving licences.”

She was also imbedded with the British troops as they made their way to Bazara; she needed to keep her nerve in a war environment.

“If you stay back you don’t see what’s happening and you rely on the professional judgment of soldiers and they are putting their lives at risk . . . its difficult for them to do their job and look after me in that zone.

“You have to be lucky and not too brave.”

In 2003, she was transferred to Bangkok and became the BBC’s South East Asia correspondent.

She travelled back to report in Baghdad and later experienced the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami.

Kylie said it was difficult to see the devastation and be aware of the death toll of the Thai people but it was harder for those who had lost loved-ones.

“Covering the tsunami was more difficult in a way because with war you can look at politics and analyse people’s motivations and victims can get angry at someone or something, but with a tsunami there is no one to be angry at.”

“You get through it by focusing on your job and in a way that protects you because at the end of the day you have to file the report.”

In 2006, she left the BBC and became the Asia correspondent for Channel 4 in London and in 2007 she moved back to London and became the presenter for a 30-minute news program, More4News.

This change has left her with a more centralised life and she has adapted to a new platform of journalism.

“It’s very different because it’s all live and it’s nice to be working in a big team of people, and I do a lot more writing, and as a presenter you have more say and more influence over what the program covers,” she said.

“There is more focus on British news, but the whole world comes to London eventually.”

The move has allowed her proud parents, Dawn and Earl Morris, to stop following her movements on a map on their fridge and encouraged them to visit her in London.

“Tracking her movements made us feel more connected to her and it improved our geography but now she’s back in London we’re going to take it down,” Mrs Morris said.

“We’ll visit more as well because Afghanistan is not the best place to visit.”

Kylie has spent the past five weeks with her parents and has been enjoying a slower change of pace, although her baby Sonny and husband Bharat are allowing her to experience the world in a new way.

“I am dangerously curious and I am still excited about the world and its opportunities, and now I’ve got a family to experience the world with and, at the end of the day, I think you’re the world’s luckiest person because you get to go home to your own family.”