Don McCullin on the memories that haunt him

Photographer Don McCullin has been taking unflinching images of war and human suffering for 60 years - from Biafra to Vietnam and Beirut  - which are seared into the public consciousness.

But the memories associated with some of his work assignments took its toll and still haunt him - seeing children dying in a hospital or people executed will never leave him, he explained.

"I played a very tricky game with my life trying to cleanse my heartaches and my sorrows," he told BBC HARDtalk, but added that it had been his own decision to go to those locations.

Watch the full interview on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel.