The BBC's 'Irish troubles'

<p>This book explores how news and information about the conflict in Northern Ireland was disseminated through the most accessible powerful and popular form of media: television. It focuses on the BBC and considers how its broadcasts complicated the 'Troubles' by challenging decisions policies and tactics developed by governments trying to defeat a stubborn insurgency that threatened national security. <br><br> The book uses highly original sources to consider how the BBC upset the efforts of a number of governments to control the narrative of a conflict that claimed over 3500 lives and caused deep emotional scarring to thousands of people. Using recently released archival material from the BBC and a variety of government archives the book addresses the contentious relationship between broadcasting officials politicians the army police and civil service from the outbreak of violence throughout the 1980s.</p>