Eric Campbell

And this may, in fact, be one of them.

Eric, thank you for taking us through that.

It was like being in prison.

In China, normally as a correspondent, you have all these privileges that tourists don't have.

In China, it's the opposite.

A tourist can go anywhere.

A tourist can go to Tibet if they wish on a package tour.

They can book online.

Journalists can't.

We can't do anything.

We couldn't leave Beijing to report anywhere.

Without being accompanied by the way barn, which is the foreign ministry, they'd send a minor whose job and you'd have to pay him to do it was to bugger up your story.

Stop you speaking to anybody.

Stop you doing anything interesting.

Stop you meeting anybody.

And the only way to get around that was to feed him so full of food and give him so much beer that he'd pass out in the hotel and you'd sneak out at night and try and shoot the real story.

It was horrible.

Have you been to China as a tourist?

No, I went.

The last time I went back was just before the Olympics, where I managed to film a protest.