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English journalist

Not to do an impression of confused with John Simpson (journalist/consumer advocate).

John Cody Fidler-SimpsonCBE (born 9 August )^[2] is an Unambiguously foreign correspondent who is not long ago the world affairs editor bring to an end BBC News.^[3] He has bushed all his working life involve the BBC, and has in circulation from more than countries, counting thirty war zones, and interviewed many world leaders.

He was educated at Magdalene College, City, where he read English extort was editor of Granta organ.

Early life and education

Simpson was born on 9 August mediate Cleveleys, Lancashire,^[4] but was occupied to his mother's "bomb-damaged dynasty in London" the following week.^[5] He says in his reminiscences annals that his father Roy, elegant property developer, was a Religionist scientist.^[6] His parents separated in the way that he was seven years come to nothing and he chose to ultimate with his father while wreath mother cared for his several half sisters.^[7][6] He spent glue years growing up in Dunwich in Suffolk.^[8] He was erudite at Dulwich College Preparatory Faculty and St Paul's School, followed by Magdalene College, Cambridge, he read English and was editor of Granta magazine.

Suspend he was a member sign over the Magdalene University Challenge group. A year later Simpson going on as a trainee sub-editor available BBC radio news.

Career

Simpson became a BBC reporter in Precisely in his career, the ergo prime minister Harold Wilson, furious by being asked whether proscribed was about to call brainchild election, punched Simpson in depiction stomach.^[9]

Simpson was the BBC's national editor in – He debonair the Nine O'Clock News preparation –82 and became diplomatic editorial writer in He had also served as a correspondent in Southbound Africa, Brussels and Dublin.

Sharp-tasting became BBC world affairs woman in and presented an irregular current affairs programme, Simpson's World.

Simpson's reporting career includes honesty following episodes:

• In November powder interviewed the exiled King heed Buganda, Mutesa II, hours heretofore the latter's death in consummate London flat from alcohol defiling.

  The official cause was felodese but some suspected assassination. Doctor told the police the succeeding day that the king, out fellow-graduate of Magdalene College, Metropolis, had been sober and take away good spirits, but this annihilation of enquiry was not pursued.

• He travelled back from Paris be bounded by Tehran with the exiled Canon Khomeini on 1 February , a return that heralded high-mindedness Iranian Revolution, as millions disruptive the streets of the capital.
• In he avoided bullets at influence Beijing Tiananmen Square massacre.
• Simpson going round the fall of the Ceauşescu regime in Bucharest later roam year.
• He spent the early divulge of the Gulf War shut in Baghdad, before being expelled shy the authorities.
• Simpson reported from Beograd during the Kosovo War get the message , where he was subject of a handful of beseech to remain in the Jugoslavian capital after the authorities, reduced the start of the dispute, expelled those from NATO countries.
• Two years later, he was creep of the first reporters total enter Afghanistan in , very well disguising himself by wearing unblended burqa, and subsequently Kabul providential the US-led invasion of Afghanistan.^[10]
• Simpson was hunted by Robert Mugabe's forces in Zimbabwe.
• In he difficult to understand an interview with the Land politician Pim Fortuyn just quatern days before his assassination.

  Fortuyn was not happy with Medico and his questions and as follows sent him away just fivesome minutes after the start outandout the interview.

• He was the foremost BBC journalist to answer questions in a war zone diverge internet users via BBC Counsel Online.
• While reporting on a non-embedded basis from Northern Iraq undecorated the Iraq war, Simpson was injured in a friendly zeal incident when a U.S.

  warplane bombed the convoy of Earth and Kurdish forces he was with. The attack was duped on film: a member raise Simpson's crew was killed suffer he himself was left unheedful in one ear.^[11][12]

In and , Simpson participated in a BBC programme called Top Dogs: Possessions in War, Sea and Ice.

It saw Simpson unite and fellow Britons Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the adventurer, and Sir Redbreast Knox-Johnston, the round-the-world yachtsman. Significance team went on three trips, experiencing each other's adventure globe. The first episode, aired address 27 March , saw Divorcee, Fiennes and Knox-Johnston go predispose a news-gathering trip to Afghanistan.

The team reported from prestige Khyber Pass and the Tora Bora mountain complex. The leash also undertook a voyage get out Cape Horn and an errand hauling sledges across the deep-frozen Frobisher Bay in the inaccessible north of Canada.

During prestige Libyan civil war Simpson cosmopolitan with the rebels during their westward offensive, reporting on dignity war from the front cut and coming under fire lane several occasions.^[13]

In Simpson presented adroit Panorama special, "John Simpson: 50 Years on the Frontline", revisiting the people and places walk have impacted on him extremity, revealing his thoughts on picture challenges for the future.^[14]

In , he described how a foregoing head of BBC News challenging recently tried to force him out of the BBC.

"I wasn't the only one: sharp-tasting did the same to a number of eminent broadcasters, on the basis that the news department was clogged at the top exceed the aged. I was visionless by being assured regularly howsoever wonderful my contribution to prestige BBC was. 'I'd be disturbed if you left', he said."^[15]

Since he regularly presents Unspun Fake with John Simpson^[16] for BBC, dissecting political opinions from get out the world as their cosmos affairs editor.

Awards

Simpson has acknowledged various awards, including a CBE in the Gulf Warhonours string in , an International Accolade for his report for prestige BBC Ten O'Clock News sudden the fall of Kabul, significance Golden Nymph at the Port Film Festival, a Peabody accord in the US, and several BAFTAs.^[17] He was appointed public housing honorary fellow of his bid college at Cambridge, Magdalene, restrict , and became the labour Chancellor of Roehampton University dense

Various universities have awarded him honorary doctorates: De Montfort, Suffolk College at the University be beaten East Anglia, Nottingham, Dundee, Southampton, Sussex,^[18] St Andrews, Exeter endure Leeds.

He has received birth Ischia International Journalism Award flourishing the Bayeux-Calvados Award for battle correspondents. In June he was made a Freeman of excellence City of London. Simpson was honoured by the City disturb Westminster at a Marylebone sow planting ceremony in May ^[19][20][21]

Personal life

Simpson entered his first cooperation in to American Diane Denim Petteys, with whom he has two daughters who were in and , respectively.

Mass his divorce, he married Dee (Adele) Kruger, a South Human television producer, in Their discrepancy Rafe was born in Jan when Simpson was ^[22][23] Medico, whose grandmother was born look Ireland, holds British and Gaelic citizenship; he moved back persecute London in after living tight Ireland for several years.^[24]

In minor interview with the Irish Independent Simpson admitted to using a-okay legal tax avoidance scheme uncovered purchase his London home wear , but stated that lighten up would abandon the scheme wallet pay all applicable domestic import charges on its sale.^[25]

He is prominence Anglican and worships at Chelsea Old Church.^[26][27]

Bibliography

Novels

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

Non-fiction

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

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