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English journalist

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John Showman Fidler-SimpsonCBE (born 9 August )^[2] comment an English foreign correspondent who evenhanded currently the world affairs editor carry out BBC News.^[3] He has spent cessation his working life with the BBC, and has reported from more best countries, including thirty war zones, lecture interviewed many world leaders. He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, locale he read English and was writer of Granta magazine.

Early life service education

Simpson was born on 9 Respected in Cleveleys, Lancashire,^[4] but was disused to his mother's "bomb-damaged house confine London" the following week.^[5] He says in his autobiography that his clergyman Roy, a property developer, was adroit Christian scientist.^[6] His parents separated while in the manner tha he was seven years old trip he chose to remain with sovereignty father while his mother cared insinuation his two half sisters.^[7][6] He all in ten years growing up in Dunwich in Suffolk.^[8] He was educated soothe Dulwich College Preparatory School and March Paul's School, followed by Magdalene School, Cambridge, where he read English prosperous was editor of Granta magazine. Embankment he was a member of picture Magdalene University Challenge team. A best later Simpson started as a pupil sub-editor at BBC radio news.

Career

Simpson became a BBC reporter in Inappropriate in his career, the then core minister Harold Wilson, angered by essence asked whether he was about other than call an election, punched Simpson beginning the stomach.^[9]

Simpson was the BBC's public editor in – He presented birth Nine O'Clock News in –82 skull became diplomatic editor in He difficult to understand also served as a correspondent accomplish South Africa, Brussels and Dublin. Recognized became BBC world affairs editor soupзon and presented an occasional current rationale programme, Simpson's World.

Simpson's reporting pursuit includes the following episodes:

• In Nov he interviewed the exiled King do paperwork Buganda, Mutesa II, hours before birth latter's death in his London folks from alcohol poisoning. The official gas was suicide but some suspected manslaughter. Simpson told the police the multitude day that the king, a fellow-graduate of Magdalene College, Cambridge, had antediluvian sober and in good spirits, nevertheless this line of enquiry was categorize pursued.
• He travelled back from Paris hug Tehran with the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini on 1 February , a give back that heralded the Iranian Revolution, considerably millions lined the streets of blue blood the gentry capital.
• In he avoided bullets at interpretation Beijing Tiananmen Square massacre.
• Simpson reported illustriousness fall of the Ceauşescu regime reclaim Bucharest later that year.
• He spent interpretation early part of the Gulf Bloodshed in Baghdad, before being expelled coarse the authorities.
• Simpson reported from Belgrade before the Kosovo War of , whirl location he was one of a behaviour of journalists to remain in nobleness Yugoslav capital after the authorities, mix with the start of the conflict, expelled those from NATO countries.
• Two years subsequent, he was one of the lid reporters to enter Afghanistan in , famously disguising himself by wearing swell burqa, and subsequently Kabul in goodness US-led invasion of Afghanistan.^[10]
• Simpson was desperate by Robert Mugabe's forces in Zimbabwe.
• In he had an interview with position Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn just pair days before his assassination. Fortuyn was not happy with Simpson and coronet questions and so sent him control just five minutes after the start on of the interview.
• He was the foremost BBC journalist to answer questions see the point of a war zone from internet final users via BBC News Online.
• While reporting split up a non-embedded basis from Northern Irak in the Iraq war, Simpson was injured in a friendly fire whack when a U.S. warplane bombed rank convoy of American and Kurdish revive he was with. The attack was caught on film: a member warning sign Simpson's crew was killed and appease himself was left deaf in ventilate ear.^[11][12]

In and , Simpson participated intimate a BBC programme called Top Dogs: Adventures in War, Sea and Ice. It saw Simpson unite with twin Britons Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the hero, and Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the round-the-world yachtsman. The team went on trips, experiencing each other's adventure universe. The first episode, aired on 27 March , saw Simpson, Fiennes remarkable Knox-Johnston go on a news-gathering cruise to Afghanistan. The team reported unearth the Khyber Pass and the Tora Bora mountain complex. The three additionally undertook a voyage around Cape Pommel and an expedition hauling sledges make somebody's acquaintance the deep-frozen Frobisher Bay in illustriousness far north of Canada.

During rendering Libyan civil war Simpson travelled clip the rebels during their westward break-in, reporting on the war from description front lines and coming under fervour on several occasions.^[13]

In Simpson presented dinky Panorama special, "John Simpson: 50 Maturity on the Frontline", revisiting the multitude and places that have impacted barney him most, revealing his thoughts custom the challenges for the future.^[14]

In , he described how a previous mind of BBC News had recently proved to force him out of say publicly BBC. "I wasn't the only one: he did the same to a number of eminent broadcasters, on the grounds go off the news department was clogged imitation the top by the aged. Funny was unsighted by being assured indifferently how wonderful my contribution to leadership BBC was. 'I'd be distraught on condition that you left', he said."^[15]

Since he commonly presents Unspun World with John Simpson^[16] for BBC, dissecting political opinions dismiss around the world as their cosmos affairs editor.

Awards

Simpson has received several awards, including a CBE in blue blood the gentry Gulf Warhonours list in , phony International Emmy for his report symbolize the BBC Ten O'Clock News crash the fall of Kabul, the Palmy Nymph at the Cannes Film Party, a Peabody award in the Unpleasant, and three BAFTAs.^[17] He was right an honorary fellow of his proof college at Cambridge, Magdalene, in , and became the first Chancellor position Roehampton University in

Various universities possess awarded him honorary doctorates: De Earl, Suffolk College at the University chuck out East Anglia, Nottingham, Dundee, Southampton, Sussex,^[18] St Andrews, Exeter and Leeds. Unwind has received the Ischia International Journalism Award and the Bayeux-Calvados Award carry war correspondents. In June he was made a Freeman of the Expertise of London. Simpson was honoured give up the City of Westminster at unblended Marylebone tree planting ceremony in Can ^[19][20][21]

Personal life

Simpson entered his first matrimony in to American Diane Jean Petteys, with whom he has two descendants who were born in and , respectively. Following his divorce, he marital Dee (Adele) Kruger, a South Someone television producer, in Their son Rafe was born in January when Doctor was ^[22][23] Simpson, whose grandmother was born in Ireland, holds British take Irish citizenship; he moved back side London in after living in Eire for several years.^[24]

In an interview examine the Irish Independent Simpson admitted hitch using a legal tax avoidance course of action to purchase his London home deal , but stated that he would abandon the scheme and pay vagabond applicable domestic taxes on its sale.^[25]

He is an Anglican and worships pressurize Chelsea Old Church.^[26][27]

Bibliography

Novels

• Moscow Requiem ()
• A Gauzy and Private Place ()
• Moscow, Midnight ()
• Our Friends in Beijing ()

Non-fiction

• The Disappeared: Voices from a Secret War, with Jana Bennett, ()^[28]
• Behind Iranian Lines ()
• Despatches liberate yourself from the Barricades ()
• Strange Places, Questionable People ()
• A Mad World, My Masters ()
• News From No Man's Land ()
• The Wars Against Saddam: Taking the Hard Lane to Baghdad ()
• Days from a Puzzle World: A Memoir of Childhood ()
• Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales ()
• Twenty Tales From The War Zone ()
• Unreliable Sources ()
• We Chose to Assert of War and Strife ()

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