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Are there any books...


like this? I am extremely intrigued by this programme and think this would make a great novel. I was just wondering if there are any books or even TV programmes that are like this? Revolving around Journalists?

Thanks in advance.

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In real life Guy Burgess, one of the notorious Cambridge spies of the last century worked, at one time, for the BBC as producer of a political programme called "This week in Westminster" and the most infamous of that group of traitors, Kim Philby was a sometime correspondent for both The Economist and The Spectator.

Sounds a bit like Clarence and Lix/ Freddie. Just sayin'.

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You would probably enjoy Broadcast News (1987), a film with Holly Hunter, William Hurt and Albert Brooks. Old school journalism versus the superficial. Great acting and the newsroom atmosphere is a lot more concincing than The Hour.

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