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Phone-hacking scandal

The former Director General of the BBC, Greg Dyke, says that 'never again are we going to be lectured by the Murdoch family' on 'what we should have in the media' in the UK.

The phone hacking scandal has exposed some of the dirty secrets of British public life.

Journalists turned to crime to gain competitive edge, police chiefs failed to investigate and political leaders looked the other way.

Rupert Murdoch's British media business is under intense scrutiny, but so too are the country's most powerful institutions.

HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur talks to three guests - former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, Former BBC Director General Greg Dyke, and Metropolitan Police Authority member Christopher Boothman discuss phone hacking.

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