Lomax obtained a BBC traineeship as a presenter and was a reporter on
Nationwide from the late 1960s and also reported for other BBC current affairs programmes and election night broadcasts. His notable interviewees on Panorama included Idi Amin, Robert Mugabe and Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. who walked out of his interview. He also made a critical report for Newsnight about the Eurofighter Typhoon project. He was named journalist of the year in 1986 and retired to Dartmoor, Devon. He had previously lived for many years near Theale, in Berkshire, where among other activities he kept bees. For most of his life he was an avid sailor, and completed many cruises in Arctic waters, as well as an Atlantic crossing. He died aged 76 on 5 September 2014.[2][3]