with David Dimbleby Starting with the News Summary
The weekly look at what matters in politics. Home Secretary
The RtHon Douglas Hurd , mp, the minister responsible for law and order, talks to David Dimbleby in his first major interview since taking over one of Whitehall's most difficult and controversial departments in September. The programme includes a film report from
Michael Cockerell showing the vast range of problems facing all Home Secretaries: prisons, police, criminal justice, immigration, drugs, telephone tapping, experiments on animals, bingo and broadcasting.
Within days of taking office Mr Hurd soon found out for himself, with the riots of Handsworth, Brixton and Tottenham, the truth of one former Home Secretary's remark 'the corridors of the Home Office are paved with dynamite'.
Producers TOM BARNICOAT
PHILIP CAMPBELL. COLIN MARTIN ELLIE UPDALE
Editor PAUL NORMS