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John Simpson
Born August 9, 1944 · Cleveleys, Lancashire, England (age 81)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Cody Fidler-Simpson CBE (born 9 August 1944) is an English foreign correspondent and world affairs editor of BBC News. He has spent all his working life at the BBC, and has reported from more than 120 countries, including thirty war zones, and interviewed many world leaders.
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Maigret · 1960Maigret
★ 7.11960
SeriesCrimeDrama
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
Countdown · 1982Countdown
★ 6.01982
Series
The clock is ticking as contestants compete in games of lexical dexterity and numerical agility.
Balderdash and Piffle · 2006Balderdash and Piffle
★ 9.52006
SeriesDocumentary
Presented by Victoria Coren, it was companion to the Oxford English Dictionary's Wordhunt, in which the writers of the dictionary asked the public for help in finding the origins and first known citations of a number of words and phrases. The OED panel consisted of John Simpson, the Chief Editor of the OED; Peter Gilliver, who was also the captain of the Oxford University Press team in University Challenge - the Professionals; and Tania Styles, who also appeared in "dictionary corner" in Countdown.
Top Dogs: Adventures in War, Sea and Ice · 2009Top Dogs: Adventures in War, Sea and Ice
2009
SeriesDocumentary
Three iconic adventurers - newsman John Simpson, polar explorer Ranulph Fiennes and solo yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnston - go on a newsgathering trip to war-torn Afghanistan, attempt to sail around the most notorious of all maritime landmarks, Cape Horn, situated at the southernmost tip of South America, and man-haul sledges across the frozen sea ice of the Canadian Arctic.
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