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Les Hinton, Executive Chairman News International, 1995-2007
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the former newspaper executive Les Hinton. For more than 50 years he was Rupert Murdoch's right-hand-man.
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the former newspaper executive Les Hinton. For more than 50 years he was the right-hand-man of one of the most powerful press barons of modern times - Rupert Murdoch. Hinton was a top executive at News Corp during some of its most tumultuous times. He has just lifted the lid on his time at the corporation in a new memoir. How much personal responsibility does he bear for some of the excesses at News International like the phone-hacking scandal in the UK and did he have a career he can be proud of?
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Sun 27 May 201814:00GMT
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| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Zeinab Badawi |
| Interviewed Guest | Les Hinton |