The John Simpson Collection: CD Audio books (Strange Places, A Mad World, News from No Man's Land, The Wars Against Saddam)

Simpson, John

ISBN 10: 1405048638 ISBN 13: 9781405048637

Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio, 2004

Synopsis

With Simpson's uncanny knack of being in the right place at the right time, his autobiographies are a ring-side seat at every major event in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.

From being punched in the stomach by Harold Wilson on one of his first days as a reporter, to escaping summary execution in Beirut, flying into the Teheran with the returning Ayatollah Khomeini, John Simpson has had an astonishingly eventful career.

In 1989, he witnessed the Tiananmen Square massacre, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Communism throughout Eastern Europe and only weeks later, in South Africa, the release of Nelson Mandela.

On 13 November 2001, he and a BBC news crew walked into Kabul and the liberation of the Afghan capital was broadcast to a waiting world.

His extraordinary experiences also include stories about a television camera that killed people, about how Colonel Gadhaffi farted his way through an interview and how he - Simpson - mooned the Queen.

'Great stories told with great gusto...an easy and rewarding read' Jon Snow, Daily Mail

About this title

About the Author

John Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs Editor. He has twice been the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year and won countless other major television awards. He has written several books, including four volumes of autobiography, Strange Places, Questionable People, A Mad World, My Masters, News from No Man's Land and Not Quite World's End and a childhood memoir, Days from a Different World. He is also the author of The Wars Against Saddam, Twenty Tales from the War Zone and Unreliable Sources, as well as several novels. He lives in London with his South African wife, Dee, and their son, Rafe.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405048638
• ISBN 13: 9781405048637
• Binding: Audio CD