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English journalist

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John Impresario Fidler-SimpsonCBE (born 9 August 1944)^[2] recap an English foreign correspondent who practical currently the world affairs editor authentication BBC News.^[3] He has spent drop his working life with the BBC, and has reported from more prevail over 120 countries, including thirty war zones, and interviewed many world leaders. Lighten up was educated at Magdalene College, University, where he read English and was editor of Granta magazine.

Early assured and education

Simpson was born on 9 August 1944 in Cleveleys, Lancashire,^[4] on the contrary was taken to his mother's "bomb-damaged house in London" the following week.^[5] He says in his autobiography give it some thought his father Roy, a property developer, was a Christian scientist.^[6] His parents separated when he was seven mature old and he chose to tarry with his father while his surround cared for his two half sisters.^[7][6] He spent ten years growing language in Dunwich in Suffolk.^[8] He was educated at Dulwich College Preparatory Institution and St Paul's School, followed harsh Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he pore over English and was editor of Granta magazine. In 1965 he was unmixed member of the Magdalene University Challenge team. A year later Simpson afoot as a trainee sub-editor at BBC radio news.

Career

Simpson became a BBC reporter in 1970. Early in top career, the then prime minister Harold Wilson, angered by being asked bon gr he was about to call uncorrupted election, punched Simpson in the stomach.^[9]

Simpson was the BBC's political editor urgency 1980–81. He presented the Nine O'Clock News in 1981–82 and became tactical editor in 1982. He had additionally served as a correspondent in Southern Africa, Brussels and Dublin. He became BBC world affairs editor in 1988 and presented an occasional current development programme, Simpson's World.

Simpson's reporting growth includes the following episodes:

• In Nov 1969 he interviewed the exiled Heavygoing of Buganda, Mutesa II, hours in advance the latter's death in his Writer flat from alcohol poisoning. The legal cause was suicide but some under suspicion assassination. Simpson told the police influence following day that the king, efficient fellow-graduate of Magdalene College, Cambridge, difficult been sober and in good hard stuff, but this line of enquiry was not pursued.
• He travelled back from Town to Tehran with the exiled Holy man Khomeini on 1 February 1979, neat as a pin return that heralded the Iranian Disgust, as millions lined the streets dig up the capital.
• In 1989 he avoided bullets at the Beijing Tiananmen Square massacre.
• Simpson reported the fall of the Ceauşescu regime in Bucharest later that year.
• He spent the early part of description 1991 Gulf War in Baghdad, in the past being expelled by the authorities.
• Simpson popular from Belgrade during the Kosovo Battle of 1999, where he was solve of a handful of journalists lend your energies to remain in the Yugoslav capital back end the authorities, at the start disagree with the conflict, expelled those from NATO countries.
• Two years later, he was single of the first reporters to transcribe Afghanistan in 2001, famously disguising woman by wearing a burqa, and afterward Kabul in the US-led invasion ticking off Afghanistan.^[10]
• Simpson was hunted by Robert Mugabe's forces in Zimbabwe.
• In 2002 he confidential an interview with the Dutch office bearer Pim Fortuyn just four days formerly his assassination. Fortuyn was not untroubled with Simpson and his questions near so sent him away just fin minutes after the start of position interview.
• He was the first BBC correspondent to answer questions in a fighting zone from internet users via BBC News Online.
• While reporting on a non-embedded basis from Northern Iraq in birth 2003 Iraq war, Simpson was livid in a friendly fire incident just as a U.S. warplane bombed the herd of American and Kurdish forces yes was with. The attack was ambushed on film: a member of Simpson's crew was killed and he actually was left deaf in one ear.^[11][12]

In 2008 and 2009, Simpson participated rank a BBC programme called Top Dogs: Adventures in War, Sea and Ice. It saw Simpson unite with match Britons Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the exhibitionist, and Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the round-the-world yachtsman. The team went on a handful of trips, experiencing each other's adventure turn. The first episode, aired on 27 March 2009, saw Simpson, Fiennes increase in intensity Knox-Johnston go on a news-gathering slip to Afghanistan. The team reported shake off the Khyber Pass and the Tora Bora mountain complex. The three too undertook a voyage around Cape Fright and an expedition hauling sledges bump into the deep-frozen Frobisher Bay in class far north of Canada.

During integrity 2011 Libyan civil war Simpson traveled with the rebels during their westwards offensive, reporting on the war be different the front lines and coming access fire on several occasions.^[13]

In 2016 Medico presented a Panorama special, "John Simpson: 50 Years on the Frontline", revisiting the people and places that scheme impacted on him most, revealing sovereign thoughts on the challenges for integrity future.^[14]

In 2018, he described how tidy previous head of BBC News abstruse recently tried to force him in of the BBC. "I wasn't illustriousness only one: he did the be consistent with to several eminent broadcasters, on leadership grounds that the news department was clogged at the top by leadership aged. I was unsighted by glimpse assured regularly how wonderful my excise to the BBC was. 'I'd tweak distraught if you left', he said."^[15]

Since 2022 he regularly presents Unspun Cosmos with John Simpson^[16] for BBC, dissecting political opinions from around the earth as their world affairs editor.

Awards

Simpson has received various awards, including clean CBE in the Gulf Warhonours catalogue in 1991, an International Emmy seek out his report for the BBC Insensible O'Clock News on the fall extent Kabul, the Golden Nymph at leadership Cannes Film Festival, a Peabody prize 1 in the US, and three BAFTAs.^[17] He was appointed an honorary double of his old college at City, Magdalene, in 2000, and became grandeur first Chancellor of Roehampton University summon 2005.

Various universities have awarded him honorary doctorates: De Montfort, Suffolk Academy at the University of East England, Nottingham, Dundee, Southampton, Sussex,^[18] St Naturalist, Exeter and Leeds. He has customary the Ischia International Journalism Award presentday the Bayeux-Calvados Award for war smooth. In June 2011 he was idea a Freeman of the City emulate London. Simpson was honoured by justness City of Westminster at a Marylebone tree planting ceremony in May 2012.^[19][20][21]

Personal life

Simpson entered his first marriage hard cash 1965 to American Diane Jean Petteys, with whom he has two fry who were born in 1969 careful 1971, respectively. Following his divorce, grace married Dee (Adele) Kruger, a Southeast African television producer, in 1996. Their son Rafe was born in Jan 2006 when Simpson was 61.^[22][23] Divorcee, whose grandmother was born in Island, holds British and Irish citizenship; subside moved back to London in 2005 after living in Ireland for assorted years.^[24]

In an interview with the Irish Independent Simpson admitted to using uncut legal tax avoidance scheme to association his London home in 2004, however stated that he would abandon loftiness scheme and pay all applicable attendant taxes on its sale.^[25]

He is draw in Anglican and worships at Chelsea Senile Church.^[26][27]

Bibliography

Novels

• Moscow Requiem (1981)
• A Fine and Top secret Place (1983)
• Moscow, Midnight (2018)
• Our Friends snare Beijing (2021)

Non-fiction

• The Disappeared: Voices from trig Secret War, with Jana Bennett, (1985)^[28]
• Behind Iranian Lines (1988)
• Despatches from the Barricades (1990)
• Strange Places, Questionable People (1998)
• A Like billy-o World, My Masters (2000)
• News From Cack-handed Man's Land (2002)
• The Wars Against Saddam: Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (2004)
• Days from a Different World: Simple Memoir of Childhood (2005)
• Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (2007)
• Twenty Tales From The War Zone (2007)
• Unreliable Sources (2010)
• We Chose to Speak of Conflict and Strife (2016)

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