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The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews.

The ideas shaping our lives today - with leading artists and thinkers in extended interview and debate.

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Susie Boniface

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Martin Moore

Craig Templeton Smith

Free Thinking: John Simpson on the death of the war correspondent

What Knowledge Do We Value?

14/12/2016

John Simpson on the death of the war correspondent

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, John Simpson on the death of the war correspondent

Philip Dodd and guests consider what we mean by 'news' in 2016.

John Simpson talks about 50 years of reporting from around the world for the BBC, and Philip Dodd and guests discuss what we mean by 'news' in the digital age.

John Simpson joins Philip Dodd to discuss fifty years of reporting from around the world for the BBC and what the future holds for foreign correspondents.

Once our news came from three primary sources: newspapers, radio and TV. But in a digital world which offers a proliferation of 'news' how do we separate fact from opinion or even fakery? Former director general of the BBC and current CEO of The New York Times Company, Mark Thompson, journalist Susie Boniface (aka Fleet Street Fox), author and TV producer, Peter Pomerantsev, and academic, Martin Moore, consider what we mean by news in 2016.

We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent is by John Simpson.

Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia is by Peter Pomerantsev

Enough Said: What's gone wrong with the language of politics? is by Mark Thompson.

Producer: Craig Templeton Smith.

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