[…] by his colleagues. Having produced a number of documentaries on the war in Northern Ireland he is now seen as an expert on the area by the BBC and it is said that nothing gets broadcast about Northern Ireland by the BBC which has hasn’t been cleared by Ware and/or Peter Taylor.(1) What follows […]
[…] the military and the civil service. Media members include Economist political editor David Lipsey, Independent economics editor Diane Coyle, Times Educational Supplement editor Caroline St John-Brooks and BBC journalists Jeremy Paxman, Isabel Hilton, Trevor Phillips and James Naughtie. BAP’s Origins The first recorded mention of the need for a ‘successor generation’ came in 1983 […]
[…] Axis intelligence activities and resulted in its eventual independence from the SIS as the Radio Intelligence Service.(14) ‘Nation shall speak peace unto Nation’ The role of the BBC during the Cold War is examined in detail in a special issue of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.(15) Articles include: James R. Vaughan, […]
[…] the Home Office as reforms get ‘finessed’ under political pressure. The conduct of the New Labour administration is not reassuring to date. Notes There are some basic BBC reports of the Crowborough incident as it appeared on the weekend of 2/3 September at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5308626.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5309604.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/5310522.stm The picture given by Gordon Corera was not […]
[…] worked with World in Action and is now with BBC’s Panorama. It was to John Ware that Panorama entrusted its investigation into the Wilson-MI5 plots after the BBC embargo on the subject was lifted a couple of months ago. Like all the other journalists interested in this story, Ware went to see Colin Wallace, […]
[PDF file]: Undercover killers at the BBC Andrew Rosthorn It has taken the former BBC producer Paul Atkinson nineteen years to research the story behind his 2022 book Undercover Killers at the BBC.1 Christopher Guest More, 23, was an undercover cameraman on a BBC true crime television series when he staged this picture, holding a Glock […]
[…] Bloomsbury, London, 1990). Mike Jeffrey: Manager of Jimi Hendrix, MI5 counter-intelligence agent 50s. (Victor Sampson, Hendrix, Proteus, London, pp. 101-2). Michael Stokes: MI6 involved with Penkovsky ( BBC TV 8/5/91). John Collins: MI6 London 1961-62 (BBC TV 8/5/91). Terrence Bennett: died 1978. Probably MI6 (personal information), taught in Malaya in the 50s and dropped […]
[…] strange that I, an unknown, was given such an important task. I felt he just wanted to create an impression of activity and organisation. In January 1984 BBC broadcast ‘Maggie’s Militant Tendency’ which concerned, inter alia, relations between MPs and Tory Action. Neil Hamilton and Harvey Proctor sued for defamation and in September 1986 […]
HP source ‘The plot against Harold Wilson’, the drama-documentary broadcast on BBC 2 on 16 March, was a strange affair. It was really little more than a World in Action half hour from the late 1970s puffed-up, complete with redundant reconstruction of Wilson and Marcia Falkender meeting BBC journalists Penrose and Courtiour (Pencourt). Is […]
[…] deployment — formally prohibiting the federal government from placing the conservation of public lands or the protection of endangered species above the needs of military preparedness.’ (5) BBC block staff access to www.bilderberg.org Tony Gosling reported in an April edition of his PEPIS newsletter (http://www.bilderberg.org/bilder.htm#pepis) that the BBC have blocked access for their staff […]
