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EPISODE · Sep 14, 2016 · 28 MIN

Turkish journalist Can Dundar, John Whittingdale on the BBC draft charter, Phone hacking

from The Media Show · host BBC Radio 4

Andrea Catherwood talks to former Culture Secretary John Whittingdale about the hunt for a new Chair of the BBC Board following Rona Fairhead's decision to step down.We get reaction to the latest report on phone hacking. The Commons Privileges Committee has looked at evidence given in 2012 on phone hacking. We hear from Les Hinton, the former News International Chairman, the Labour MP Chris Bryant and Steven Barnett, professor of communications and the university of Westminster and a board member of pressure group Hacked Off.And Turkish journalist Can Dündar has just published an account of his arrest, imprisonment and exile. He talks about the challenges facing journalists in Turkey since this summer's failed coup.'We Are Arrested' by Can Dündar is out nowProducer: Ruth Watts.

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