[…] entail a complete revision of extant accounts of that event; and students of the media will have to take on board the chapter on IRD and the BBC – not to mention the extraordinary fact that as late as 1976, 92 British journalists were on IRD’s distribution list. So how many were on the […]
[…] Lobster 19 we referred to Keston College as a probable MI6 operation. One of our readers had the wit to send our reference to Keston to the BBC, asking for comments. The editor of the Radio 4 programme ‘Sunday’ replied that ‘It is not the first time we have encountered such suggestions, and we […]
[…] Heathfield show no scramble by Deere and Hanbury. Again, base records disagree with the personal log books of pilots. In an interview with McRoberts for a 1984 BBC documentary, Al Deere talked about the scramble, by referring to his log book and suggesting the reason he failed to kill the 110 was that the […]
[…] movements were gathering strength everywhere, Omo was being sold all over the Caribbean, Africa and the African Middle East with the advertising strapline ‘Omo washes whitest…..’ 2 BBC 6 O’clock News, 3 October 2003. The high profile launch of the American doughnut chain contrasts with the non-existent one in many London suburbs of the […]
[…] the Hess Affair was due to be screened in Holland in September 1990. Dr Hugh Thomas said ‘I offered both Dr Andrew and the producer of the BBC programme sight of the old 1941 file but they refused to look at it.’ Thomas says he first met Oldfield when serving as an army surgeon […]
[…] perhaps the biggest obscenity of them all. Faced with the death of David Kelly he managed to turn the Hutton Inquiry into a witch hunt of the BBC. Blair’s legacy? Well, Tony saved the Tory Party from oblivion through his failure to deliver the socialist goods. He also enabled the BNP to appear radical […]
[…] Presumably this refers to the Economist’s Foreign Report, among whose editors were Brian Crozier and Robert Moss. ‘Crucial to the IRD’s success was its relationship with the BBC.’ (p. 29) What is wrong with Mayhew’s account is his ignorance of the way IRD developed long after his involvement with it; he remembers it simply […]
[…] a peace agreement with Germany in 1941. Thomas’s theory was examined in a highly critical film by Dr Christopher Andrew of Corpus Christie College, Cambridge, for the BBC 2 history programme Timewatch in January. Andrew maintained that Hess was Hess after all and that he had probably committed suicide. The Thomas story was, Andrew […]
[…] and campaigning journalists such as John Pilger. Their main, but not exclusive, focus is on the liberal newspapers, such as The Guardian and The Independent and the BBC. This is because the papers are allegedly writing from a viewpoint that is in some way critical of the powers that be, and the latter because […]
[…] the high levels of white cells in their blood. Four patients died, and two developed encephalitis. In 1968, Eric Hadden, then Director of Porton Down, in a BBC interview admitted that CS gas was tested on ‘aged people, asthmatic people, young people.'(23) In a letter to me in October 1993 Dr. Graham Pearson, former […]
