60 years as a journalist

60 years as a Journalist

Bill Hamilton, will be giving a visual presentation of his 60 years as a journalist, and broadcaster covering major events across the world.  From very humble beginnings on a weekly newspaper in Scotland, via regional newspapers, radio and television, he became a familiar face on BBC TV News. As a special correspondent his assignments included the 1982 war in Lebanon, AIDS in Africa and the IRA Brighton bombing.

He was the first TV journalist to enter Stalinist Albania. There, his exclusive reports on the appalling suffering of children sparked a huge international appeal involving Norman Wisdom and the Duchess of York and won him the Order of Mother Teresa, the country’s highest civilian award.