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Title: The other Suez crisis
Post by Forum Admin on Nov 5^th, 2006, 12:00pm

Radio Four's "The Archive Hour" examined the conflict between the BBC and the then Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, during the Suez Crisis in 1956.

Former Panorama editor Steve Hewlett says it was a defining period for the BBC's editorial independence.

It's an absorbing programme and you can hear it by clicking here, and then clicking on "Listen Again".