All This in 60 Minutes

by Nicholas Lee

Overview

For more than 30 years, Nicholas Lee was a cameraman on 60 Minutes, Australia's most respected and watched current affairs program, alongside Ray Martin, George Negus, Ian Leslie, Richard Carleton, Mike Munro, Jennifer Byrne, Liz Hayes, and Tara Brown, among others. All This in 60 Minutes is the revealing and often hilarious memoir of his time with the show—of the crazy days of unlimited expense accounts, of late nights and bleary mornings, the fun and fear on the road, and in the refugee camps and war zones. It goes inside the IRA, Idi Amin's torture cells, and into palaces and mud huts. It recounts unforgettable trips on B-52s, ultra-lights, and the Orient Express. And it takes you behind the interviews with the famous and infamous—from presidents, rock stars, despots, and kings, to pygmies and manic, charismatic gurus.The result is a book that is compelling, funny, and utterly eye-opening. As Ellen Fanning describes it, All This in 60 Minutes "perfectly captures the controlled chaos, the seat-of-the-pants improvisation, the behind the scenes exhilaration of 60 Minutes . All of which goes to prove, that often the best bits never make it to the screen."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781952534430
Publisher:	Allen & Unwin
Publication date:	07/01/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Nicholas Lee worked as a cameraman for 10 years across a variety of news programs before joining Channel 9's 60 Minutes when it launched in 1979. Over the next 30 years, Nicholas Lee traveled extensively filming and living the world's major news stories, before retiring in 2009.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Prologue 1

1 Bed of Nails 5

2 The Packers and Me (and Phil) 20

3 It Could Have Been the End 34

4 Great Pubs 42

5 Down and Out in Cairo 54

6 I Forgot to Flush 67

7 Almost a Murder on the Orient Express 78

8 He's Dead and the Moon is Blue 92

9 Frequent Flying 115

10 Food, Glorious Food 144

11 A Few Good Men 167

12 Rembrandt Had it Easy 192

13 Shit Happens 206

14 I Ain't Got No Quarrels 231

15 Kings and Wannabes 255

16 No Apology, Anthropology 287

17 The Virgin and Buddy Holly 306

18 You Lose Some You Win Some 316

19 To Cull or Not to Kill 337

20 There's no Business Like … 354