Fifty Years before the Masthead

As a tribute to the late Anthony Howard, we hear again one episode of a recent series on his lifetime in journalism. With contributions from fellow broadcasters Sue MacGregor and Charles Wheeler and the novelists Julian Barnes and Martin Amis. Anthony Howard recalls his early journalistic adventures before being signed up in 1965 to become Whitehall correspondent for the Sunday Times. The paper boasted that their latest journalistic recruit would 'prise open' the Labour government's secrets but the Prime Minister Harold Wilson soon put a stop to that. Another opportunity beckoned, however, and Anthony Howard became Washington correspondent for the Observer before editing The New Statesman.