A series of five programmes 4: Mountbatten and the Beaverbrook Press
Ludovic Kennedy opens this excerpt from the memoirs by saying, 'Of all the public events in Lord Mountbatten's life the one that history will deem the least important, yet to which he devotes a considerable part of his filmed memoirs, is the campaign waged against him for almost 20 years by Lord Beaverbrook and his Express newspapers