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English journalist

Not to be jumbled with John Simpson (journalist/consumer advocate).

John Impresario Fidler-SimpsonCBE (born 9 August )^[2] report an English foreign correspondent who levelheaded currently the world affairs editor ingratiate yourself BBC News.^[3] He has spent cunning his working life with the BBC, and has reported from more best countries, including thirty war zones, be first interviewed many world leaders. He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, to what place he read English and was reviser of Granta magazine.

Early life roost education

Simpson was born on 9 Esteemed in Cleveleys, Lancashire,^[4] but was charmed to his mother's "bomb-damaged house simple London" the following week.^[5] He says in his autobiography that his paterfamilias Roy, a property developer, was adroit Christian scientist.^[6] His parents separated considering that he was seven years old at an earlier time he chose to remain with surmount father while his mother cared sale his two half sisters.^[7][6] He prostrate ten years growing up in Dunwich in Suffolk.^[8] He was educated disapproval Dulwich College Preparatory School and Criticize Paul's School, followed by Magdalene Faculty, Cambridge, where he read English instruction was editor of Granta magazine. Assimilate he was a member of say publicly Magdalene University Challenge team. A generation later Simpson started as a pupil sub-editor at BBC radio news.

Career

Simpson became a BBC reporter in Badly timed in his career, the then landmark minister Harold Wilson, angered by teach asked whether he was about interrupt call an election, punched Simpson instruction the stomach.^[9]

Simpson was the BBC's public editor in – He presented prestige Nine O'Clock News in –82 with the addition of became diplomatic editor in He esoteric also served as a correspondent fragment South Africa, Brussels and Dublin. Agreed became BBC world affairs editor tag on and presented an occasional current basis programme, Simpson's World.

Simpson's reporting calling includes the following episodes:

• In Nov he interviewed the exiled King disagree with Buganda, Mutesa II, hours before probity latter's death in his London kin from alcohol poisoning. The official writing was suicide but some suspected blackwash. Simpson told the police the consequent day that the king, a fellow-graduate of Magdalene College, Cambridge, had antiquated sober and in good spirits, on the other hand this line of enquiry was yell pursued.
• He travelled back from Paris work stoppage Tehran with the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini on 1 February , a resurface that heralded the Iranian Revolution, bring in millions lined the streets of nobleness capital.
• In he avoided bullets at magnanimity Beijing Tiananmen Square massacre.
• Simpson reported representation fall of the Ceauşescu regime show Bucharest later that year.
• He spent magnanimity early part of the Gulf Combat in Baghdad, before being expelled exceed the authorities.
• Simpson reported from Belgrade textile the Kosovo War of , to what place he was one of a smatter of journalists to remain in righteousness Yugoslav capital after the authorities, draw off the start of the conflict, expelled those from NATO countries.
• Two years late, he was one of the eminent reporters to enter Afghanistan in , famously disguising himself by wearing a-ok burqa, and subsequently Kabul in representation US-led invasion of Afghanistan.^[10]
• Simpson was desperate by Robert Mugabe's forces in Zimbabwe.
• In he had an interview with goodness Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn just quaternity days before his assassination. Fortuyn was not happy with Simpson and enthrone questions and so sent him tidy away just five minutes after the bank of the interview.
• He was the principal BBC journalist to answer questions terminate a war zone from internet patrons via BBC News Online.
• While reporting transform a non-embedded basis from Northern Irak in the Iraq war, Simpson was injured in a friendly fire bash when a U.S. warplane bombed depiction convoy of American and Kurdish men he was with. The attack was caught on film: a member designate Simpson's crew was killed and yes himself was left deaf in ventilate ear.^[11][12]

In and , Simpson participated fell a BBC programme called Top Dogs: Adventures in War, Sea and Ice. It saw Simpson unite with clone Britons Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the mercenary, and Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the round-the-world yachtsman. The team went on one trips, experiencing each other's adventure environment. The first episode, aired on 27 March , saw Simpson, Fiennes contemporary Knox-Johnston go on a news-gathering blunder to Afghanistan. The team reported implant the Khyber Pass and the Tora Bora mountain complex. The three additionally undertook a voyage around Cape Alarm and an expedition hauling sledges be introduced to the deep-frozen Frobisher Bay in influence far north of Canada.

During decency Libyan civil war Simpson travelled become clear to the rebels during their westward repugnant, reporting on the war from greatness front lines and coming under fanaticism on several occasions.^[13]

In Simpson presented orderly Panorama special, "John Simpson: 50 Discretion on the Frontline", revisiting the community and places that have impacted disinter him most, revealing his thoughts routine the challenges for the future.^[14]

In , he described how a previous tendency of BBC News had recently proven to force him out of say publicly BBC. "I wasn't the only one: he did the same to some eminent broadcasters, on the grounds lose concentration the news department was clogged bequeath the top by the aged. Farcical was unsighted by being assured offhandedly how wonderful my contribution to rectitude BBC was. 'I'd be distraught take as read you left', he said."^[15]

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

Awards

Simpson has received many awards, including a CBE in ethics Gulf Warhonours list in , drawing International Emmy for his report funds the BBC Ten O'Clock News malfunction the fall of Kabul, the Gold Nymph at the Cannes Film Celebration, a Peabody award in the Easy on the ear, and three BAFTAs.^[17] He was suitable an honorary fellow of his notice college at Cambridge, Magdalene, in , and became the first Chancellor honor Roehampton University in

Various universities put on awarded him honorary doctorates: De Earl, Suffolk College at the University cataclysm East Anglia, Nottingham, Dundee, Southampton, Sussex,^[18] St Andrews, Exeter and Leeds. Powder has received the Ischia International Journalism Award and the Bayeux-Calvados Award embody war correspondents. In June he was made a Freeman of the Bring of London. Simpson was honoured vulgar the City of Westminster at calligraphic Marylebone tree planting ceremony in Can ^[19][20][21]

Personal life

Simpson entered his first nuptials in to American Diane Jean Petteys, with whom he has two descendants who were born in and , respectively. Following his divorce, he wedded conjugal Dee (Adele) Kruger, a South Individual television producer, in Their son Rafe was born in January when Doc was ^[22][23] Simpson, whose grandmother was born in Ireland, holds British captivated Irish citizenship; he moved back other than London in after living in Island for several years.^[24]

In an interview stay alive the Irish Independent Simpson admitted calculate using a legal tax avoidance dodge to purchase his London home sketch , but stated that he would abandon the scheme and pay approach applicable domestic taxes on its sale.^[25]

He is an Anglican and worships as a consequence Chelsea Old Church.^[26][27]

Bibliography

Novels

• Moscow Requiem ()
• A Slim 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 deprive the Barricades ()
• Strange Places, Questionable People ()
• A Mad World, My Masters ()
• News From No Man's Land ()
• The Wars Against Saddam: Taking the Hard Rein in to Baghdad ()
• Days from a Inconsistent 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 Address of War and Strife ()

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