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Ex-Murdoch executive on phone hacking

24/05/2018 GMT

BBC World News - HARDtalk, Les Hinton

Zeinab Badawi speaks to the former Executive Chairman of News International, Les Hinton.

In his new memoir, Les Hinton discusses his time as a top executive at News Corp. Does he bear responsibility for the excesses at News International and is he proud of his career?

HARDtalk's Zeinab Badawi speaks to the former newspaper executive Les Hinton. For more than fifty years he was the right hand man of one of the most powerful press barons of modern times - Rupert Murdoch. Hinton was a top executive at News Corp during some of its most tumultuous times. He has just lifted the lid on his time at the corporation in a new memoir. How much personal responsibility does he bear for some of the excesses at News International like the phone hacking scandal in the UK and did he have a career he can be proud of?

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