The BBC at 100: political tensions in the 1970s and 80s
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The B B Cs Problem Is That It Is Treated as a Traitor on the Home Front
World service broadcasts to south atlantica trebled in i induration scale. But it is treated as a traitor on the home front, because there is opposition to the falklands war. News night or panorama get into deep trouble from the government and are attacked by tabloid press for referring to british troops as our troops. So it wa the bevasy was being entirely consistent, but it was accused of being a kind of traitor in the midst," he says.
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