Government loses Spycatcher appeal
- Title
- Government loses Spycatcher appeal
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 10 Feb 1988
- Year of production
- 1988
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- Duration
- 00:01:56
- Description
- Report by Linda Duffin on the government losing its appeal for a permanent ban on press reports of material from the book, Spycatcher, by former MI5 officer Peter Wright. Includes interviews reacting to the verdict with Sunday Times editor, Andrew Neil; Guardian editor, Peter Preston; Observer editor, Donald Trelford.
- Contributors
- Peter Preston; Andrew Neil; Donald Trelford; Linda Duffin
- Keywords
- Books; Government; Newspapers; Margaret Thatcher; Press; Freedom of the press; The Sunday Times; Mass media; Espionage; Trials; Intelligence service; The Guardian; Peter Wright; Spycatcher; The Observer; The Official Secrets Act
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