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How The Bbc Started To Go Downhill

Peter Black THE BBC: THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS by Asa Briggs OUP, f17.50 T he first 296 pages of this one-volume history are not 'simply', says their author, an abridgment of the......

Hack Shall Speak Unto Hack

Samuel Brittan WHAT THE PAPERS NEVER SAID by Peter Hennessy Portcullis. Press £3.95 D oes the following story seem familiar? Sterling is under pressure, and weekend newspapers......