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    Strange Places, Questionable People: Updated With a New Chapter on Kosovo

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    First read a few years after its publication, this second or maybe third time with the book and most of the events Mr Simpson describes have become "proper actual history" whatever that might be.

    After an evocative and interesting account of his family history and early years, we arrive at the BBC in the early s where he has stayed, working for other media too, ever since. And as the blurb on the back of the book rightly says he has the uncanny knack of being at the right place at the right time. The name "BBC" has opened a lot of doors for him, but John Simpson and his teams still had to go through the door and report on what he found. It can't have been easy sometimes given what he found.

    Mr Simpson was there during the bombing of Beirut in the early s, and during what now seems to have been a momentous world-changing time of quiet and not so quiet revolutions and not so revolutions; he was in T
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    John Simpson (journalist)

    English journalist

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

    John Cody Fidler-SimpsonCBE (born 9 August )[2] is an English foreign correspondent who is currently the world affairs editor of BBC News.[3] He has spent all his working life with the BBC, and has reported from more than countries, including thirty war zones, and interviewed many world leaders. He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read English and was editor of Granta magazine.

    Early life and education

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    Simpson was born on 9 August in Cleveleys, Lancashire,[4] but was taken to his mother's "bomb-damaged house in London" the following week.[5] He says in his autobiography that his father Roy, a property developer, was a Christian scientist.[6] His parents separated when he was seven years old and he chose to remain with his father while his mother cared for his two half sisters.

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    John Simpson

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    John Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs Editor. He has twice been the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year and won countless other major television awards. He has written several books, including fem volumes of autobiography, Strange Places, Questionable People , A Mad World, My Masters, News from No Man's nation and Not Quite World's End and a childhood memoir, Days from a Different World. The Wars Against Saddam, his konto of the West's relationship with Iraq and his two decades reporting on that relationship encompassing two Gulf Wars and the fall of Saddam Hussein, and Unreliable Sources: How the Twentieth Century Was Reported are also published by Pan Macmillan. He lives in London with his South African wife, Dee, and their son, Rafe.

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