I’d like to say sorry to my mother. I had to choose between my parents, and I chose my father because he didn’t have any other kids. (My mother was a war widow and had two children from her first marriage.) I thought, in a childish way, that one had to be fair. It was very difficult for my mother and me, and we never really got over it.
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John Simpson
English journalist
United Kingdom · b. 1944
Politics and public life
Born in Lancashire, John Simpson, 72, studied at Cambridge University. He joined the BBC in 1970, and became an award-winning foreign correspondent; he is currently world affairs editor. In 2001, he famously donned a burqa and became the first reporter to broadcast from Taliban-held Afghanistan. His latest book is We Chose To Speak Of War And Strife. He is married for the second time, has three children and lives in Oxford.
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Recently, when I got out of hospital and into my own bed with my wife and 10-year-old son; we watched some crap television and life had never seemed better.
I would have behaved better to my first wife, and the girl I lived with afterwards. I was always away.
Comfort, warmth and security.
The problem with my job is that you meet people you admire and then you don’t admire them so much. The only one I carried on admiring was Nelson Mandela.
Reading the news. It’s a dull job.
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