Product Description

"Panorama" will be 50 years old in 2003. Richard Lindley spent more than 15 years as a reporter on the programme and, in this book, he traces the full story behind the programme's colourful and controversial history.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #963709 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 404 pages

Synopsis
"Panorama" will be 50 years old in 2003. Richard Lindley spent more than 15 years as a reporter on the programme and, in this book, he traces the full story behind the programme's colourful and controversial history.

From the Publisher
Pre-eminent among Britain's current affairs television output, Panorama celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2003. This landmark book traces the programme back to its humble beginnings in the early 1950s and asks whether it has achieved the goals set by its founders. Using interviews with all the main Panorama presenters over the years - Robert Kee, Fred Emery, Robin Day, David Dimbleby and many others - Lindley tells the full story behind Panorama's colourful and controversial history. He gives for the first time the full details behind the 1995 interview with Princess Diana, the controversial programme on the Falklands War which enraged Margaret Thatcher, and the 1984 Maggie's Militant Tendency episode which resulted in a successful libel action by several Tory MPs.