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Private Notes
After Special Branch returned the tapes for the 1987 Secret Society series, the BBC kept the final programme on secret and unaccountable cabinet committees and refused to release it. Several years later, Duncan remade the episode for Channel 4 using the transcripts from the original episode.
The opening episode exposes a rampant culture of secrecy dominant in Westminster. These clandestine committees and groups yield untold influence on government policy and yet operate completely independent of public scrutiny or accountability.
About the Data Protection Act, which defines a legal basis for the handling in the UK of information relating to living people. The controversies associated with this act are explored.
About secret preparations for war that began in 1982 within every NATO country. This programme revealed what Britain would do.
About the Association of Chief Police Officers and how Government policy and actions are determined in the fields of law and order.
Bungling defence manufacturers and incompetent military planners have botched every new radar system that Britain has installed since World War Two. Why? And can we stop it happening again?
The infamous 'Zircon' episodes reveals the existence of a £500m British spy satellite programme kept secret from Parliament
