Interview with Independent editor Andreas Whittam-Smith

Title

Interview with Independent editor Andreas Whittam-Smith

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Jul 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:01:40

Description

Editor of The Independent, Andreas Whittam-Smith, on the implications of the Appeal Court ruling on former intelligence officer Peter Wright’s Spycatcher memoirs. On the government being able to gag individual newspapers by taking out injunctions, and the difficulty The Sunday Times had attempting to continue to publish extracts. Male interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Andreas Whittam-Smith

Keywords

Books; Newspapers; Press; Sunday Times; Freedom of the press; Espionage; Spies; Legal decisions; Intelligence service; Peter Wright; Spycatcher; Injunctions

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