World in Action

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Paul Jackson looks back to ITV's pioneering show, World in Action, which led the way for current affairs from 1963 to 1998. What was the impact and legacy of its tough journalism, which launched the TV career of John Pilger and helped to free the Birmingham Six? With John Pilger, Lord Douglas Hurd and Sir Jeremy Isaacs. Not only celebrating innovative TV programmes over the decades, 'Britain in a Box' uses them as a window on a particular period in our cultural and social history. Producer: Paul Kobrak First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011.