Single documentaries

The Man who shot John Lennon

1998 – Yorkshire TV, ITV, First Tuesday documentary strand and PBS Frontline. In 1983 John Cleese’s company Videoarts funded OJ to research Lennon’s killer Mark Chapman and James obtained all the tapes of Chapman’s interviews with psychologists after the murder. This documentary resulted, with James as the Associate Producer.

Infidelity

Channel 4, 1999 – As writer and presenter, OJ explores our unease or comfort about infidelity.

Prozac Diary

1995, BBC2 – OJ produced and presented this exploration of how depression or its absence effects artistic creation.

Louis dribbling a ball

Date – My son Louis, 9, critiques my gene theories.