Life's a gas for geezers with gusto

British journalist John Simpson was on hand when the Berlin wall came down, he was there for the fall of communism in Russia and the end of apartheid in South Africa. He saw the 1989 Tiananmen Square atrocities. In 2001, he was the first journalist into the liberated Afghanistan capital Kabul, squeezing through ahead of the Northern Alliance, having already smuggled himself into the country beneath a burqa - a disguise that, at the time, he said worked "superbly".