Days from a Different World

John Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs Editor. 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 three volumes of autobiography: Strange Places, Questionable People, A Mad World, My Masters and News from No Man's Land and, most recently, The Wars Against Saddam.