LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Duncan Campbell on banning of TV programme

Genre

News report

TX Date

Jan 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:03:01

Description

Dave Loyn reports on the BBC’s decision to ban Duncan Campbell’s Secret Society programme on a secret defence project kept from Parliament. Labour Foreign Affairs spokesman George Foulkes on the breach of Parliamentary guidelines and the pressure put by the government on the BBC.

Contributors

Dave Loyn; George Foulkes

Keywords

Government; BBC; Television programmes; State security; Journalists; MOD; Donald Campbell; Zircon; Secret Society

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