John Simpson: Unreliable Sources
BBC World Affairs Correspondent John Simpson has travelled the world in search of stories, and his latest book chronicles the adventures of those who have gone before him. Hear him at the Ilkley Literature Festival.
Unreliable Sources is an opinionated account of how the British press has reported key moments in our history, and how while the press likes to pretend its independent, it has enjoyed the power it has over the events it reports - and has sometimes exercised it irresponsibly.
In this programme, recorded at the 2010 Ilkley Literature Festival, he is in conversation with the Yorkshire Post's Digital Editor David Behrens, and on stage at the King's Hall, Ilkley.
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John Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs Editor. He has twice been the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year and has 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, The Wars Against Saddam, Days from a Different World and, most recently, Not the End of the World.
Unreliable Sources: How the Twentieth Century Was Reported published by Macmillan at 20. ISBN 978-1405050050
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