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.
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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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