Panorama

by Lindley, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781842750469
• ISBN10: 1842750461
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Politicos Pub

Author Biography

Richard Lindley was born in Winchester and educated at Bedford School. After National Service with the Royal Hampshire Regiment in Malaya he went to Queens' College Cambridge, where he ran the University Film Society. After a spell in advertising, making commercials, he became a television reporter, first for ITN's News at Ten and later for the BBC's Panorama and ITV's This Week. He now makes occasional television documentaries. He has two children and lives in north London with his wife, the author and broadcaster Carole Stone

Table of Contents

Foreword by Jeremy Paxman	vii
Preface	ix
Research note	xi
1 'This terrible shambles'	1	(14)
2 First faltering steps	15	(9)
3 Finding a role	24	(5)
4 Bumble and the whim of iron	29	(7)
5 The window on the world	36	(16)
6 They were giants...	52	(67)
7 The producers - bag carriers or bosses?	119	(30)
8 Those poor, well-paid presenters	149	(41)
9 The Editors	190	(73)
10 The Panorama style	263	(27)
11 Coping with complaint	290	(7)
12 Pressure tests	297	(78)
13 Whither Panorama?	375	(9)
Postscript	384	(4)
Notes	388	(11)
Index	399