In 1980 the BBC broadcast a sketch in the Radio 4 programme Week Ending which described him as an "East End boy made bad" and that Jameson was "so ignorant he thought erudite was a type of glue". Jameson sued the BBC for libel, but lost the action when it came to court in February 1984. While the jury found the broadcast defamatory, they also considered it fair comment and Jameson had to pay costs of £75,000. This award against him affected his finances, and following the end of his time at the News of the World in the previous month, he was forced to take up an offer from the BBC itself. Broadcasting In 1984 he presented Do They Mean Us? a television series for BBC 2 which according to his Scotsman obituary was "a decidedly patriotic examination of foreign television networks' British coverage". On the show, Jameson had the catchphrase; "Do they mean us? They surely do!" He joined BBC Radio 2 in late 1985, sitting in for Jimmy Young, before taking over the breakfast show from Ken Bruce in April 1986, presenting it until December 1991 and greeting listeners with the refrain 'morning, morning, Jameson here. He then hosted the Monday to Thursday late-night show between 10.30 and 12.00 along with his wife Ellen, which was called The Jamesons from January 1992 until April 1997. In 1988 he began presenting the BBC1 television show People. He was replaced in the second series by Chris Serle, Lucy Pilkington, Jeni Barnett and Frank Bruno. In 1989 and 1990, he presented the nightly chat show Jameson Tonight on Sky One from the Windmill Theatre in London. In 2010 he took part in BBC's The Young Ones, in which six celebrities in their 70s and 80s attempt to overcome some of the problems of ageing by harking back to the 1970s. Following the end of his regular broadcasting career, Jameson wrote a weekly column in the Brighton Argus until October 2000, and was latterly an after-dinner speaker. Personal life In 1947, Jameson married Jackie, whom he had met during his Communist Party membership; she divorced him in the 1960s. He married Pauline in 1971. In 1978 he left her for Ellen Petrie, to whom he remained married until his death aged 82 of a heart attack on 12 September 2012. He had three sons and a daughter from his first two