He conducted a controversial interview with Egyptian leader Colonel
Nasser over the Suez crisis.
He stood unsuccessfully as the Liberal Party candidate for the seat of
Hereford in 1959.
Controversial interview with the Defence Minister Sir John Nott after
the Falklands War (1982). The minister walked out on live TV after
being called a "here today, gone tomorrow politician" compared to
career soldiers.
Political interviewer, knighted in 1981.
He was portrayed by Paul Ritter in the play "The Reporter", which opened at
the National Theatre in London, in February 2007. It was written by
Nicholas Wright , directed by Richard Eyre and focused on the life (and death) of
the BBC correspondent James Mossman who worked with him throughout the
1960s.