Tuesday 28 March, 7.30pm, at the Crucible Theatre
John Simpson, the renowned foreign correspondent and award winning BBC World Affairs Editor talks about his extraordinary life on the frontlines.
He has reported from more than 120 countries, including thirty war zones. 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 will be in conversation with broadcaster Paul Allen to discuss his book We Choose to Speak of War and Strife. Hear John talk candidly about what it is to risk life and limb as a foreign correspondent, interweaving the stories of figures who went before him, such as Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn and Charles Wheeler, with extraordinary accounts from his own lifetime on the frontlines.
Tickets £12.00/£10 (cons) can be purchased online, or contact the Crucible Box Office on 0114 249 6000.