"That night, I was just getting all my reports ready when suddenly there was an announcement that Ceaucescu and his wife had been executed.
Feverishly I wrote a new, different script, changed it all around, just managed to put it out, and threw the pen down on the table with a sense of relief - I had about 15 seconds to spare.

I looked down at the pen and it was the one that Ceaucescu's housekeeper, who'd taken an inconceivable liking to me, had handed to me from Ceaucescu's desk earlier that afternoon... So I'd written Ceaucescu's obituary with his own fountain pen".

- BBC Correspondent, John Simpson