John Simpson is the World Affairs Editor of the BBC. He has twice been the Royal Television Society’s Journalist of the Year. He has also won three BAFTAs including the Richard Dimbleby award in 1991 and the News and Current Affairs award in 2000 for his coverage, with the BBC News team, of the Kosovo conflict.
He has written five books about his life and travels, Strange Places, Questionable People, A Mad World My Masters, News From No Man’s Land, The Wars Against Saddam, Not Quite World’s End and the acclaimed childhood memoir Days From a Different World. He lives in London with his South African wife, Dee and their son Rafe.