FACTUAL
A Comfort to the Enemy
Saturday 4 November 2006 20:00-21:00 (Radio 4 FM)
In 1956, Prime Minister Anthony Eden was at loggerheads with the BBC over its coverage of the Suez crisis. Steve Hewlett uses archive recordings and new interviews to explore a defining period for the BBC's editorial independence.
Contributors include Douglas Hurd, Charles Wheeler and Alastair Milne.
