Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] this limited output was immensely popular, with up to 4 million listeners tuning in every night to Radio Luxembourg rather than to the immensely staid and Reithian BBC Home Service. To satisfy UK demand for more broadcasting of this type Plugge also ran a smaller operation, Radio Normandy, a small station licensed by the […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] about the falsification of intelligence relating to Iraqi WMD, but whose death ended up being used instead as a vehicle for the Blair government to attack the BBC, who had reported the leak. Among the documents posted on the inquiry’s website was a bizarre and cryptic document concerning child abuse, the presence of which […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] not win the general election of 1979. Michael Morton contacted me to let me know such speculation had already been done by Andrew Marr in 1993 on BBC television; and that the scenarios discussed by Marr and various interviewees had originally been published in his magazine Alternate Worlds in January 1995.2 Very kindly, Michael […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] . 15 See or . 16 17 Listed at . 18 6 Reynolds, to see some of the files generated by the once secret MI5 vetting of BBC staff.19 I have no idea, I replied. The story on the BBC News website is worth reading – if only for the strong whiff of ‘the […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS Gavin Mortimer London: Constable, 2022, £25, h/b John Newsinger On Sunday 30 October, the BBC broadcast the first episode of its much trumpeted drama series, SAS Rogue Heroes, with a screenplay by Steven Knight of Peaky Blinders fame. The six part […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] public attention in any serious way. Our handling of it has been designed to discourage further fruitless argument.’6 Mrs Chalker spoke too soon. On 28 February 1989, BBC Newsnight screened a 30-minute TV report in which both Professor Spann and the prison nurse Abdallah Melaouhi told the reporter Olenka Frenkiel that they suspected the […]