When, in 1967, as editor I failed to make a one-subject Panorama work to my superior's satisfaction, Phillip, having produced episodes on Nasser, and on Bobby Kennedy, followed me to Rediffusion.
How does this revisionist panorama work, even?
Next came Panorama working alongside another hero of his youth, reporter Tom Mangold ("I couldn't believe it").
He then becomes an assistant producer on Panorama, working on coverage of the first Gulf War and the fall of Margaret Thatcher.
But 360 Panorama will work on almost any device made in the last two years, running Gingerbread (Android 2.3) and up.
His career has spanned a period covering the Troubles in Northern Ireland, reporting for Panorama and working as a presenter on radio, breakfast TV and the Six O'Clock News, before finding the show with which he has been most closely identified.
Throughout the night and following day, as the vessel rose and fell on a gentle swell, the espresso machine in the Panorama bar worked overtime, until the assembled group shrank as seasickness claimed its toll and several passengers retreated to cabins to be ill.
But as it turns out, you can actually get panorama mode working on your iOS 5 device without jailbreaking it.
Panorama includes works by nine artists, including Kris Martin's Altar, Yutaka Sone's Little Manhattan, and Rashid Johnson's Blocks.
Students will no longer perform Graham's 1934 "Panorama," but a work donated last week by another modern dance pioneer, "Harmonica Breakdown" by Jane Dudley.
In the decade after the war ended, he wrote at least five novels, two of which Peter Filkins has recently translated into English: "The Journey," which appeared in 2008, and now an earlier work, "Panorama" (Random House; $26).
