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Yesterday's Men (TV Programme)
''Yesterday's Men'' is a British documentary that appeared as part of the '' 24 Hours'' series (BBC 1) Sources vary as to whether the programme was shown on 16 or 17 June. on 17 June 1971. The programme is remembered for provoking a clash between the Labour Party and the BBC. According to Anthony Smith, the editor of ''24 Hours'' at the time, the film led to "the biggest and most furious row that a television programme in the English language has ever provoked." Documentary The "History of the BBC" section of the corporation's website states on its page on the ''Yesterday's Men'' controversy: "Straight-dealing is one of the principles of BBC programme making, but it has not always been followed." The programme makers reversed the slogan the Labour Party had used in the 1970 general election against the Conservatives (who won) to apply to the members of the former Labour government then in opposition. As far as they knew, the programme's title was "Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
24 Hours (TV Series)
''24 Hours'' or ''Twenty-Four Hours'' is a long-running, late-evening, weekdaily news magazine programme that aired on BBC1. It focused on analysis and criticism of Current affairs (news format), current affairs, and featured in-depth short Documentary film, documentary films that set the style for current-affairs magazine programmes. ''24 Hours'' launched on 4 October 1965 and focused on investigative journalism. The programme's main presenter was Cliff Michelmore. History The programme brought together the production teams from two BBC television programmes: ''Gallery'', a weekly political programme, and ''Tonight (1957 TV series), Tonight'', an early-evening magazine programme. The original editors were Tony Whitby from ''Tonight'' and Derrick Amoore from ''Gallery'', and it later came to be led by Anthony Smith (producer), Anthony Smith. Presenter Cliff Michelmore was the first lead anchor for ''24 Hours''. With him in the studio were Kenneth Allsop, Michael Barratt (televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Castle
Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, (''née'' Betts; 6 October 1910 – 3 May 2002) was a British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament from 1945 United Kingdom general election, 1945 to 1979 United Kingdom general election, 1979, making her one of the longest-serving female MPs in British history. Regarded as one of the most significant Labour Party politicians, Castle developed a close political partnership with Prime Minister Harold Wilson and held several roles in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom, Cabinet. She remains to date the only woman to have held the office of First Secretary of State. A graduate of the University of Oxford, Castle worked as a journalist for both ''Tribune (magazine), Tribune'' and the ''Daily Mirror'', before being elected to Parliament of the United Kingdom, Parliament as MP for Blackburn (UK Parliament constituency), Blackburn at the 1945 United Kingdom general election, 1945 e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annan Committee
The Annan Committee on the future of broadcasting was established in April 1974 to discuss the United Kingdom broadcasting industry, including new technologies and their funding, the role and funding of the BBC, Independent Broadcasting Authority and programme standards. On 3 February 1977, the committee recommended: * Changes to BBC funding by licence fee * Fourth, independent, television channel * Long-term restructure and diversification of broadcasting * Establishment of Broadcasting Complaints Commission * Privatisation of local radio * Independence from direct political control * Increase in independent production Outcomes * Increased licence fee * Channel 4 (implemented in 1980) * Channel 4 being of a more "open" nature rather than one of balance such as the BBC Members * Lord Annan * Peter Goldman * Professor Hilde Himmelweit * Tom Jackson * Sir Antony Jay * Marghanita Laski * Hilda M. Lawrence * Dewi Lewis * Sir James Mackay * The Hon. Mrs Charles Morrison * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Benn
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014), known between 1960 and 1963 as Viscount Stansgate, was a British Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician and political activist who served as a Cabinet of the United Kingdom, Cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for Bristol South East and Chesterfield (UK Parliament constituency), Chesterfield for 47 of the 51 years between 1950 Bristol South East by-election, 1950 and 2001 United Kingdom general election, 2001. He later served as President of the Stop the War Coalition from 2001 to 2014. The son of a Liberal Party (UK), Liberal and later Labour Party politician, Benn was born in Westminster and privately educated at Westminster School. He was elected for Bristol South East at the 1950 United Kingdom general election, 1950 general election but on his father's death he inherited Viscount Stansgate, his peerage, which prevented him from continui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Kee
Robert Kee (5 October 1919 – 11 January 2013) was a British broadcaster, journalist, historian and writer, known for his historical works on World War II and Ireland. Life and career Kee was born on 5 October 1919 in Calcutta, India, to Robert and Dorothy (née Monkman). The family did well but was forced to return to Britain during the depressed early 1930s.Patrick Maume'Kee, Robert' ''Dictionary of Irish Biography'', January 2022. Retrieved 12 July 2024. He earned a scholarship to Stowe School, Buckingham, and read history at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was a pupil, then a friend, of the historian A.J.P. Taylor. He considered his Stowe education as having prepared him perfectly for subsequent wartime incarceration. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Air Force as a bomber pilot. Flying the Handley Page Hampden, he was shot down by flak while on a night mine-laying mission off the coast of German-occupied Holland. He was captured and spent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Pope
Angela Pope (born in 1945) is a British television and film director, documentarist, producer and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Walton-on-Thames, Pope graduated in political sciences at the University of Sussex. She started her career as a documentarist for BBC, getting critical acclaim as well as raising controversies with ''Yesterday's Men (TV programme), Yesterday's Men'' (1971), which portrayed some members of the Labour government, 1964–1970, Wilson Cabinet in the aftermath of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party defeat at 1970 United Kingdom general election. After numerous documentaries, including the controversial ''The Best Days?'' (1977), which criticized the Comprehensive school, comprehensive school system using the Faraday High School in Ealing as case study, she made her narrative film debut in 1986 with the television film ''Night Shift'', based on her own play. In 1987 Pope got critical acclaim with the Screen Two AIDS-themed television film ''Sweet As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Robinson (journalist)
Nicholas Anthony Robinson (born 5 October 1963) is a British journalist who has been a presenter on BBC Radio 4's ''Today (BBC Radio 4), Today'' programme since 2015. Before this, he spent ten years as political editor for BBC News and has had many other roles with the broadcaster. Robinson was interested in politics from an early age. He studied philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford, where he was also president of the Oxford University Conservative Association. Starting out in broadcasting at Greatest Hits Radio Greater Manchester, Piccadilly Radio, after a year as president of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party youth group, he worked his way up as a producer, eventually becoming deputy editor of ''Panorama (British TV programme), Panorama'' before becoming a political correspondent in 1996. Robinson became the BBC's chief political correspondent in 1999. Between 2002 and 2005, he worked for ITV News as political editor but then returned t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hill, Baron Hill Of Luton
Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton, PC (15 January 1904 – 22 August 1989) was a British physician and medical spokesman, radio speaker, member of parliament, government minister and broadcasting executive. Early life and career Charles Hill was born in Islington, London and was educated at St Olave's Grammar School in Southwark, London. He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained a first class degree. He continued his medical studies at the London Hospital gaining MRCS and MRCP in 1927 and later he gained MB, BCh and MD. He became Deputy Medical Officer of Oxford in 1930. He became Assistant Secretary of the British Medical Association from 1932 and Secretary from 1944 to 1950. During the Second World War, the Ministry of Health had wanted the BBC to infiltrate health messages into ordinary programmes rather than have dedicated programmes from the Ministry of Food, but the BBC warned that this would not be effective and would be viewed by listene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman
Arnold Abraham Goodman, Baron Goodman, CH (21 August 191312 May 1995) was a British lawyer and political advisor. Life Arnold Goodman was born at Hackney, London, son of Jewish parents Joseph Goodman (1879/80–1940), a master draper, and Bertha (1887–1959), daughter of Joseph Mauerberger, owner of a Stepney drapery business. His first name was given on his birth certificate as "Aby", which was corrected by his father only in 1931. The Goodman family were comfortably prosperous, as Goodman described in profiles. He was educated at Hackney Downs School (formerly The Grocers' Company School), University College London, and Downing College, Cambridge. He became a leading London lawyer as Senior Partner in the law firm Goodman, Derrick & Co (subsequently Goodman Derrick LLP and now RWK Goodman LLP). Lord Goodman was chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain from 1965 until 1972, succeeded by Lord Gibson. As chair of the Arts Council, Goodman managed the organisation's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Curran (broadcaster)
Sir Charles John Curran (13 October 1921 – 9 January 1980) was an Irish-born British television executive and Director-General of the BBC from 1969 to 1977. Early years Curran was born in Dublin. His father, Felix Curran, was an army schoolmaster and his mother, Alicia Isabella Bruce, came from Aberdeen. Three weeks after his birth, the family moved to Aberdeen, then his family moved to Yorkshire in 1924. He was the eldest child in a family of four siblings. He attended Wath Grammar School in Rotherham, before obtaining a first-class honours degree at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Career He served in the British Indian Army from 1942 to 1945, but left to work in the BBC Talks department. He resigned following a dispute to edit the ''Canadian Fishing News'', but he returned in 1951 to join BBC Monitoring. Subsequent posts included Secretary and Director of External Broadcasting. While Director-General, he served three terms as President of the European Broadcasting U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Jenkins (journalist)
Peter George James Jenkins (11 May 1934 – 27 May 1992) was a British journalist and Associate Editor of ''The Independent''. During his career he wrote regular columns for ''The Guardian'', ''The Sunday Times'' as well as ''The Independent''. Early life and education Peter Jenkins was born at 5, Penn Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, son of pharmaceutical chemist Kenneth Edmund Jenkins (1906-1993) and teacher Joan Evelyn (1907-1981), née Croger, and grew up at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, where his father had a successful chemist's shop.'Peter Jenkins', ''The Times'' (28 May 1992), p. 17. He was educated at Culford School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he took a BA in history. He later attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison on a Harkness Fellowship, where he was a socialist activist. He performed his National Service in the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean fleet. Journalistic career He began his career as a journalist with the ''Financial Times'' (1958–60) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
