John Simpson CBE is an English foreign correspondent and world affairs editor of BBC News. He has spent all his working life with the BBC, and has reported from more than 120 countries, including thirty war zones, and interviewed many world leaders.
We talk to John about his 50-plus years at the BBC, the scary moments when his life was in danger, reporting from the frontlines and trying to find the humanity in such a troubled world.
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