presented by Anna Ford. Network offers a monthly platform for discussion of topical issues affecting television programme makers and their audience.
Tonight's Network asks: how free is free speech on television? Lord Bonham Carter , former Vice Chairman of the BBC, presents a film arguing that the 1980s have witnessed a damaging series of political attacks on broadcasting independence.
And Barry Norman shows his favourite clips demonstrating how the Government's restrictions on reporting of Sinn Fein and other Irish groups has worked in practice.
Film director SANDRA GREENWOOD Series producer GILES OAKLEY