John Simpson is simply a BBC legend. He himself says that he goes where “important things happen”, despite the individual cost and fear of his teenage son, who frequently tried to halt him from leaving. For more than half a century, he has been reporting the most crucial events in the world: from the invasion of Afghanistan to the war in Ukraine. He was in Tian’anmen Square, saw the fall of the Berlin Wall, survived dozens of armed conflicts. He witnessed “how the cold war reached the apogee and then simply evaporated.”
