A profile of the Adviser Extraordinary He's a huge man - 6ft 2ins and 20 stone - hugely talented and with an enormous sphere of influence. The newspapers once dubbed him ' Mr X,' puzzled by a man of such immense authority with so little notoriety. But in the past five years he has entered the Lords, taken up the chairmanships of the Arts Council, British Lion Films, and the Observer Trust, become a member of a government board to streamline industry, and been baptised under strike fire as the new chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association. But long before accepting public office he was advising influential men and politicians of all parties, arbitrating in union disputes, paving the way for government negotiations -and acting privately for Harold Wilson , whose solicitor he is. Lord Goodman is shy of television and public appearances, so tonight's programme is a rare occasion in which he has agreed to discuss, with DESMOND WILCOX , his many roles and the ideas that motivate him. Lord Goodman is a man known to most people with authority and influence, but a man whose personal influence has been little heard of by the public. He has been called one of the great men of our times. Tonight is his first full-length television interview. Director DAVID FILKIN Producer HARRY WEISBLOOM Edited by DESMOND WILCOX and BILL MORTON
