A series which tells the history of television journalism in America, Russia and Britain.
Break on Through. In the sixties reporters enjoyed unprecedented power. In America a critical report on Vietnam by Walter Cronkite helped persuade
PresidentJohnson to retire. In
Britain rock stars were taken as seriously as politicians and the BBC's future Director-General
John Birt fixed an interview with MickJaggeron World in Action. Even the Soviet Union adopted a more liberal approach and covered Miss World forthe first time. Narrator Edward Stourton.
Executive producer Glynn Jones