John Simpson CBE Gala interview recorded live on a Saturday afternoon with our editor-in-chief Alison Jane Reid. Watch or listen to John talk about his life as BBC World Affairs editor as a dying breed of foreign correspondent. John talks about his meetings with the world's most wanted terrorists and assorted dictators from Colonel Gaddafi to Osama Bin Laden.
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