BBC TV 1984 - Journalist James Cameron

'Once upon a time'. Broadcast on BBC 2 in 1984.
James Cameron (1911-1985) was a prominent British journalist, in whose memory the annual James Cameron Memorial Lecture is given.
He was born in Battersea, London of Scottish parentage and began his career as an office dogsbody with the Weekly News in 1935. Having worked for Scottish newspapers and for the Daily Express in Fleet Street, he was rejected for military service in World War II. After the war, his experience reporting on the Bikini nuclear experiments turned him into a committed pacifist and a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. He continued to work for the Express until 1950, briefly joined Picture Post, and then spent eight years with the News Chronicle. In his last years, he wrote a regular column for the Guardian.
With the advent of television, Cameron became well-known as a broadcaster, presenting several BBC series including Cameron Country. He wrote a successful radio play, The Pump (1973), and several books, including: Witness in Vietnam (1966) and Point of Departure (1967)

[@eddyk2016]

I was just watching a documentary about Christopher Hitchens ( "Hitch Hike" ), and Mr Hitchens says this is the guy that made him "want to become a journalist"

[@graemefraser8473]

Thanks very much for uploading this precious programme which I missed 31 years ago.

[@delzworld2007]

Thanks for uploading this doc about one of my heros. Cameron's writing and broadcasting was always both interesting and witty, with the driest dry humour which was, as 'dry' implies, very easy to miss.

[@JustKantGetEnough]

Really need more of this great man.

[@MelintheWoods]

Please please please would you put on the other 4 programmes in the series. I've been looking for video material of James Cameron for ages and this is only the second I've come across. Thank you for putting it up! Melanie

[@waterjumper]

Many thanks for sharing this rapdog.I hope you can upload the other 4 episodes.

[@snax51]

Great news! Delighted to have found more episodes which I will upload in due course.

[@ARUNSHARMA-ld6df]

great men of our times

[@eltel947]

Would love to see the full documentary he did on venice.

[@Muninman62]

I've been hoping to see these again since the 1980s, so thanks from me too. Any chance of posting the others?

[@revol148]

James Cameron, Alan Wicker, Graham Greene....travel journalists of this quality have vanished from public life.

[@MrYorickJenkins]

Yes. I remember him well as a child. He was a friend of my parents and was often round for dinner or vice versa. He was irrascible and sometimes dogmatic but had a tremendous feeling and care for language and he put his beliefs and what he thought was right before his career.

[@raw5742]

Now the media just employs glorified yes men and yes women to do it, the sheltered sons and daughters of privilege and influence how travel around the world in bought for trips bleating the gentrified hipster view of all they encounter .

[@johncee1481]

How the newspaper industry & journalism have changed over the past 30-40 years. Anyone remember Eddie Shah ?

[@adrianchappell47]

@snax51 Any news when you are able to upload more episodes please?

[@wildfilmpro723]

I am looking James Cameron Books, is anyone know where can I found?

[@teddy1066]

Jimmy Cameron inspired Christopher Hitchens to become a journalist.

[@adrianchappell47]

A very interesting account by a wonderful journalist. Please let's see the other four programmes in this series/ Adrianchappell47

[@trystero13]

Can anyone recommend a good first book of Cameron's work for the uninitiated? Cheers!

[@milescollins5079]

Point of Departure is excellent. All of his books are reviewed at retroculturati.com