JAMES CAMERON: A PAIN IN THE NECK
Sunday 8 January 2006 10pm-10.50pm
James Cameron was perhaps the most defining journalist of the last 50 years. We examine this conflict-battered idealist who feared for the worst and campaigned for the best.
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Tom Ware
Time Shift Series Editor
James Cameron still commands enormous respect among the generation of British journalists who learned their craft in his shadow. But he is largely forgotten by the general public
With a journalistic CV that reads like a chronology of post-War global conflict, Cameron was witness to (and a passionate opponent of) the US atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll and the Korean and Vietnam Wars. That his writing and his TV work retain the passion of a man who believed opinion and argument were essential to journalism is testament to Cameron's intellect and the force of his personality. Watching his response to the Six Day War, one can well imagine the vehemence and outrage with which he would bear witness to events in Iraq today.
Gerry Dawson's timely documentary uses a selection of Cameron's finest TV work to take us on a journey through the life of one of 20th Century Britain's great dissenting voices - in his own words, a "professional pain in the neck".