Robert Raymond
| Robert Raymond | |
|---|---|
| Born | 7 July 1922 Canungra, Queensland, Australia |
| Died | 26 September 2003 (aged 81) Sydney, Australia |
| Education |
The Skinners' School, Tunbridge Wells Henry Mellish County School, Nottingham |
| Parent(s) | Joe Raymond (father) Ethel Raymond (mother) |
Robert Alwyn Raymond OAM (7 July 1922 – 26 September 2003) was an Australian Logie Award winning producer, director, writer, filmmaker and journalist. A pioneer of Australian television, he with Michael Charlton in 1961, co-founded the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's flagship public affairs television program Four Corners, which is still running to this day.
Born on 7 July 1922 in the small rural town of Canungra, in south-eastern Queensland, he was the youngest of five children (one brother and three sisters). His father, Joe, was country school master who spent most of his career in the outback and had an obsessive interest in bee-keeping.
In 1934, Joe died after a bout of pneumonia at the age of 60. Raymond's mother, Ethel, decided to move to England where his siblings were living at the time. There, he completed his secondary education at The Skinners' School in Tunbridge Wells and Henry Mellish County School in Nottingham. The outbreak of World War II, however, made it impossible for him to take up a place which he had been offered at the University of Cambridge in 1938.
Determined to follow his brother, Moore, into journalism, Raymond headed for Fleet Street where he started as a cadet on The Daily Sketch in 1940. Unsatisfied, he moved soon after to London offices of the Sydney afternoon paper, The Daily Mirror and then to the London arm of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. However, after just 18 months he found himself back at The Mirror. He lived in London through the Blitz and later, the V-1 and V-2 offensives, and in 1944, as a 22-year-old and the youngest accredited war correspondent in Europe, took part in the D-Day invasion. After the war, Raymond remained in the UK, writing for the Picture Post, Illustrated, Everybody's and The Daily Mirror, and between 1948 and 1952 his own column, a critical perspective on the press called 'So They Say...’ appeared in The New Statesman and Nation.
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