REVIEW: John Simpson, Chichester Festivities
However, despite this offering a nice link in with his latest book titled Unreliable Source, most of the 90 minute session focused on events further afield.
There was no doubt he had a lot to say yet I couldn’t help feeling he was holding back. Many comments came with a disclaimer; “I probably shouldn’t tell you this,” and then failed to deliver on the juicy promise of something controversial.
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Hide AdInfact the only thing that seemed to have a bite to it was the insects in John’s colourful insights to the living conditions which come as part and parcel of being a foreign correspondent.
He even went so far to compare his days spent speaking to world leaders and risking life and limb for a story to doing the washing up - “At the end of the day they are both jobs which need doing.”
Still you can’t help but be inspired by a man who has seen and done so much. So I left, clutching my newly acquired paperback, and just hoping he will tell me more on paper than he did in person.
Laura Cartledge