John Simpson: 'The BBC fears I'll be killed if they send me

One of John Simpson’s more memorable keepsakes was a second-hand fountain pen given to him during the Romanian revolution in 1989. It was a fat, flashy number, far too bling for a BBC man, but was still somewhat special: its previous owner was Nicolae Ceaușescu, Romania’s very-soon-to-be-late dictator.

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