Profumo affair 20th anniversary

Title

Profumo affair 20th anniversary

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

Mar 1983

Year of production

1983

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Duration

00:16:59

Description

In a special LBC report Dan Damon looks back at the Profumo affair in 1963, on the twentieth anniversary of the scandal which eventually helped to bring down the Conservative Government and looks at its effect on news reporting. With comment from journalists involved Norman Lucas, now of Sunday Mirror; Barry O’Brien, Daily Telegraph.

Contributors

Dan Damon; Norman Lucas; Barry O’Brien

Keywords

Government; Newspapers; Conservative Party; Prostitutes; Mass media; Espionage; State security; Spies; Politicians; Journalists; Cabinet ministers; Anniversaries; Political scandals; Stephen Ward; John Profumo; Christine Keeler; Sunday Pictorial

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