Hello everybody, welcome to Dan's Nose History, we are a legend on the podcast today,

we got a bit of a national treasure. In 1970, a very young a cub reporter for the BBC

went up to the UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson and in the melee this cub reporter shouted

at Harold Wilson when was he going to call an election. Maybe it was a touchy subject

because Harold Wilson did actually call an election in June or something 1970 and he lost

it to the Conservative Party anyway. This cub reporter in return for his question, not super

impure question, so Prime Minister got punched in the stomach, punched in the side by the

Prime Minister. It was not huge a remarkable at the time, this assault of a journalist, there

you go, times change and it maybe should make us a little bit more relaxed about the

Bifurne Shantyx summer elected leaders at the moment, maybe not sure. Anyway, that cub reporter

was a guy called John Simpson, he would go into a pretty big career, he would have a career

stretching from that day to this, he is still going to some of the world's most dangerous

places, he is still entering some of the world's most important people and interviewing the

men and women who find themselves at the mercy of decisions made by those important folks

or at the mercy of those giant impersonal forces that were seemingly helpless to prevent,

like climate change. It's John Simpson, he's the world affairs editor of BBC News, he's

reported from 120 countries, he's been to dozens of war zones, as you'll hear in this

podcast, I grew up watching him, listening to him, he always seemed to have that knack

of being in the right place at the right time, or perhaps the wrong place at the wrong time

if you were the close family member of his. He's been arrested, he's been harassed, he's

been beaten up, he's seen it all, there's John Simpson and it was a great all right, so

have him on the podcast talking about his long career and his new book, he's got new book

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