name	Nicholas Leeson
birth date	February 25, 1967
occupation	After Dinner & Keynote Speaker, Former CEO of Irish football club Galway United, derivatives broker (fmr.)
gender	Male
status	Married
spouse	Lisa Leeson (1992–1997 divorced), Leona Tormay (2003–present)
salary	£50,000 (1992–1996, not including bonuses),
website	NickLeeson.com }}

Nicholas "Nick" Leeson (born 25 February 1967) is a former derivatives broker whose fraudulent, unauthorized speculative trading caused the collapse of Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest investment bank, for which he was sent to prison. Since leaving prison in 1999 he became, and subsequently resigned as, the CEO of Irish football club Galway United and is active on the keynote / after-dinner speaking circuit where he advises companies about risk and corporate responsibility.

Early life

Leeson was born in Watford, where he attended Parmiter's School, becoming a prefect. After receiving his O-Level results which consisted of an A in maths and seven passes, he went on to sit his A-levels in which he got a D in maths. After finishing school in 1985, having been in the Sixth Form, he landed a job as a clerk with a private bank, Coutts. He then moved to Morgan Stanley in 1987 for two years, eventually ending up with Barings in 1989.

Career

In 1992, following his first marriage, he was appointed general manager of a new operation in futures markets on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX). Barings had held a seat on SIMEX for some time, but did not activate it until Leeson was sent over. Leeson was sent to Singapore after he was denied a broker's license in the U.K. because of fraud on his application. Neither Leeson nor Barings disclosed this denial when Leeson applied for his license in Singapore.

From 1992, Leeson made unauthorized speculative trades that at first made large profits for Barings; £10 million of which accounted for 10% of Barings' annual income. He earned a bonus of £130,000 on his salary of £50,000 for that year.

However, his luck soon went sour, and he used one of Barings' error accounts (accounts used to correct mistakes made in trading) to hide his losses. The account was numbered 88888 – 8 being a number considered to be very lucky in Chinese numerology. Leeson claims that this account was first used to hide an error made by one of his colleagues; rather than buy 20 contracts as the customer had ordered, she had sold them, costing Barings £20,000.

However, Leeson used this account to cover further bad trades. He insists that he never used the account for his own gain, but in 1996 the ''New York Times'' quoted "British press reports" as claiming that investigators had located approximately $35 million in various bank accounts tied to him.

Management at Barings Bank also allowed Leeson to remain Chief Trader while also being responsible for settling his trades, jobs usually done by two different people. This made it much simpler for him to hide his losses from his superiors.

Downfall

By the end of 1992, the account's losses exceeded £2 million, which ballooned to £208 million by the end of 1994.

The beginning of the end occurred on 16 January 1995, when Leeson placed a short straddle in the Singapore and Tokyo stock exchanges, essentially betting that the Japanese stock market would not move significantly overnight. However, the Kobe earthquake hit early in the morning on 17 January, sending Asian markets, and Leeson's trading positions, into a tailspin. Leeson attempted to recoup his losses by making a series of increasingly risky new trades (using a Long-Long Future Arbitrage), this time betting that the Nikkei Stock Average would make a rapid recovery. However, the recovery failed to materialize.

Leeson left a note reading "I'm Sorry" and fled Singapore on 23 February. Losses eventually reached £827 million (US$1.4 billion), twice the bank's available trading capital. After a failed bailout attempt, Barings was declared insolvent on 26 February.

After fleeing to Malaysia, Thailand, and finally Germany, Leeson was arrested and extradited back to Singapore on 20 November 1995, though his wife Lisa was allowed to return to England. While he had authorisation for the 16 January short straddle, he was charged with fraud for deceiving his superiors about the riskiness of his activities and the scale of his losses. Several observers have placed much of the blame on the bank's own deficient internal auditing and risk management practices. Indeed, the Singapore authorities' report on the collapse was scathingly critical of Barings management, claiming that senior officials knew or should have known about the "five eights" account.

Leeson pleaded guilty to two counts of "deceiving the bank's auditors and of cheating the Singapore exchange", including forging documents. Sentenced to six and a half years in Changi Prison in Singapore, he was released from prison in 1999, having been diagnosed with colon cancer, which he survived despite grim forecasts at the time. Note that the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 does not apply, as Leeson's sentence is longer than two and a half years.

While in prison, in 1996, Leeson published an autobiography, ''Rogue Trader'', detailing his acts. A review in the financial columns of the ''New York Times'' stated, "This is a dreary book, written by a young man very taken with himself, but it ought to be read by banking managers and auditors everywhere." In 1999, the book was made into a film of the same name starring Ewan McGregor and Anna Friel.

The events also form the subject matter of a 1996 documentary film made by Adam Curtis, entitled ''25 Million Pounds''.

Aftermath

Nick Leeson's first wife Lisa divorced him while he was in prison. He married an Irish beautician, Leona Tormay, in 2003 and they now live in Barna, County Galway, in the west of Ireland. He is a regular guest on the after-dinner and keynote speaking circuit. He was appointed Commercial Manager of Galway United Football Club in April 2005, rising to the position of General Manager in late November 2005. By July 2007 he had become the club's CEO but in February 2011, Leeson resigned his position. Leeson remains as a member of the board of directors of the club, but no longer has any role in the day to day operation of the club. He still finds time to deal in the stock markets, but only with his own money.

In June 2005, Leeson released a new book, ''Back from the Brink: Coping with Stress''. It picks up his story where ''Rogue Trader'' left off, including in-depth conversations with psychologist Ivan Tyrrell asserting that the prolonged periods of severe stress that affected Leeson's mental and physical health have parallels in many other people's lives.

Trading jacket

On 5 April 2007, the Guardian newspaper reported that KPMG, the liquidators of Barings PLC, had sold a trading jacket thought to have been worn by Nick Leeson while trading on SIMEX in Singapore. The jacket was offered for sale on eBay but it failed to reach its reserve price despite a highest bid of £16,100. It was subsequently sold for £21,000. In October 2007 a similar jacket used by Leeson's team but not thought to have been worn by Leeson himself sold at auction for £4,000.

Publications

''Rogue Trader: How I Brought Down Barings Bank and Shook the Financial World'' by Nick Leeson and Edward Whitley'' (Mar 1996, hardcover) ISBN 0-316-51856-5; (1997, softcover) ISBN 0-7515-1708-9

''Back from the Brink: Coping with Stress '' (2005) – ISBN 0-7535-1075-8

Notes

See also

Speculation in financial markets

List of trading losses

Jérôme Kerviel

Galway United

CITIC#Unauthorized Forex trades

External links

Nick Leeson's Official Website

Nick Leeson on Twitter

Leeson's legacy lives on in Singapore

Business: The Economy How Leeson broke the bank

Galway United FC

Singapore's Most Famous Convicts, from Think Singapore

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Name	Jeremy Paxman
Birth name	Jeremy Dickson Paxman
Birth date	May 11, 1950
Birth place	Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
Television	''Newsnight''''University Challenge''
Nationality	British
Ethnicity	White British
Residence	Stonor, Oxfordshire
Alma mater	Malvern College, St. Catharine's College
Education	MA (St Catharine's College, Cambridge)
Employer	BBC
Occupation	Journalist, news presenter
Salary	£1,040,000 (2006) per annum
Partner	Elizabeth Ann Clough (?-present)
Children	2 daughters, 1 son
Parents	Keith and Joan Paxman
Relatives	Giles Paxman (brother) }}

Jeremy Dickson Paxman (born 11 May 1950) is a British journalist, author and television presenter. He has worked for the BBC since 1977. He is noted for a forthright and abrasive interviewing style, particularly when interrogating politicians. His regular appearances on the BBC2's ''Newsnight'' programme have been criticised as aggressive, intimidating, condescending and irreverent, yet applauded as tough and incisive. He is also noted as the question master of the revived ''University Challenge'', taking over from Bamber Gascoigne from 1994.

Early life

Paxman was born in Leeds. His father, Keith Paxman, served in the North Atlantic Fleet. His mother, Joan, born 1920, was a housewife. Paxman is the eldest of four children and has two brothers, one of whom, Giles, is the British Ambassador to Spain (having previously held the same post in Mexico), and a sister, Jenny, a producer at BBC Radio.

He was brought up in Yorkshire and Peopleton, Worcestershire. He attended Malvern College from 1964 to 1968, Charterhouse School and read English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he edited the undergraduate newspaper ''Varsity''. While at Cambridge, Paxman was briefly a member of the Labour Club.

Paxman was the subject in January 2006 of an episode of the BBC genealogy series ''Who Do You Think You Are?''. The documentary concluded him to be descended from one Roger Packsman, a 14th century politician from Suffolk who had changed his name to Paxman (''man of peace'', "Pax" translates from Latin as peace)) to impress "the electorate." His maternal grandmother was born in Glasgow, Scotland. The programme generated much pre-publicity by displaying the usually pitiless Paxman teary-eyed on camera when informed that his impoverished great-grandmother Mary Mackay's poor relief had been revoked because she'd had a child out of wedlock.

Career

Journalism

Paxman joined the BBC's graduate trainee programme in 1972. He started in local radio, at BBC Radio Brighton. He moved to Belfast, where he reported the Troubles. He moved to London in 1977. Two years later he transferred from the ''Tonight'' programme to ''Panorama''. After five years reporting from places such as Beirut, Uganda and Central America, he read the ''Six O'Clock News'' for two years, before moving to BBC1's ''Breakfast Time'' programme.

Newsnight

Paxman became a presenter of ''Newsnight'' in 1989.

On 13 May 1997 he spoke with Michael Howard in what became the programme's most notorious interview. Howard, who had been Home Secretary until thirteen days earlier, had held a meeting with Derek Lewis, head of the Prison Service, about the possible dismissal of the governor of Parkhurst Prison, John Marriott. Howard, having given evasive answers, was asked by Paxman the same question "Did you threaten to overrule him [Lewis]?" a total of twelve times in succession (14 if the first two inquiries worded somewhat differently and some time before the succession of 12). Howard did not give a direct answer, instead repeatedly saying that he "did not overrule him", and ignoring the "threaten" part of the question. Later, during a 20th anniversary edition of ''Newsnight'', Paxman told Howard that he had simply been trying to prolong the interview since the next item in the running order wasn't ready. In 2004 Paxman raised the subject again with Howard, by then leader of the Conservative Party. This time, Howard laughed it off, saying that he had not threatened to overrule the head of the Prison Service. Secret Home Office papers released in 2005 under the Freedom of Information Act failed to corroborate this.

In 1998, Denis Halliday, a United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator, resigned his post in Iraq, describing the effects of his own organisation's sanctions as genocide. Paxman asked Halliday in a ''Newsnight'' interview, "Aren't you just an apologist for Saddam Hussein?"

Later that year Paxman won a Royal Television Society award.

In 2003, Prime Minister Tony Blair opted to make the case for the invasion of Iraq via questions from a TV studio audience, mediated by Paxman. The programme is chiefly remembered for the fact that Paxman asked Blair if he and U.S. President Bush prayed together. Blair replied, "No, Jeremy. We don't pray together."

During the 2005 General Election some viewers complained to the BBC that Paxman's robust questioning of party leaders had been rude and aggressive. There was criticism of his five-in-the-morning results interview with George Galloway. Referring to Oona King, whom Galloway had just defeated, Paxman asked more than once whether he was proud of having got rid of "one of the very few black women in Parliament." An exasperated Galloway cut the interview short. Paxman later made a taped guest appearance on the ''Celebrity Big Brother'' reality TV show challenging Galloway to a follow-up session "with or without your leotard" (Galloway, a ''Big Brother'' contestant at the time, had in an earlier much-publicised stunt during the show dressed up in a leotard).

Paxman's brusque manner is not restricted to political interviews. When ''Newsnight'''s editor decided to broadcast brief weather forecasts instead of financial reports he openly ridiculed the decision: "And for tonight's weather – it's April, what do you expect?". The financial reports were re-introduced after a few weeks. In a ''Radio Times'' poll of 3,000 people in 2006, he was voted the fourth "scariest" TV celebrity.

Other TV work

Paxman has presented the weekly TV programme review ''Did You See?'', ''You Decide'' and, most notably, since 1994, ''University Challenge'', bringing him the distinction of "longest-serving current quizmaster on British TV." He presented on BBC America and BBC World a weekly compilation of highlights from the domestic edition of ''Newsnight'' from February 2008 until shortly after the 2008 U.S. election, when the American programme was cancelled. The programme is still aired on BBC World.

In April 2006 ''The Sun'' claimed that Paxman earned £800,000 for his ''Newsnight'' job and £240,000 for presenting ''University Challenge'', bringing his TV earnings to a yearly total of £1,040,000. This was one of a series of BBC salary leaks in the tabloid press that prompted an internal BBC investigation.

Beginning on 15 February 2009, his four part documentary ''The Victorians'' aired on BBC One. The series explores Victorian art and culture.

Paxman and the BBC

While John Birt was Director General of the BBC, the British press from time to time reported Paxman's criticism of his boss. The former, suspected at first to be an outsider brought in by a hostile government to supervise the BBC's break-up and ultimate sell-off, in turn publicly questioned the confrontational approach, as he saw it, of certain TV and radio interviewers. This was seen at the time as coded criticism of Paxman himself and of his BBC colleague John Humphrys.

On 24 August 2007 Paxman delivered the McTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. In it he was critical of much of contemporary TV in Britain. He expressed concern that as a consequence of recent production scandals the medium was rapidly losing public trust. Speaking of prime minister Tony Blair's criticism of the mass media at the time he left office, Paxman asserted that often press and broadcasting may be "oppositional" in relation to the government of the day this could only benefit democracy. Those Reithian goals, to "inform, educate and entertain," still remained valid. Paxman took the opportunity to dismiss as "inaccurate" the attribution to himself of the oft-quoted "Why is this lying bastard lying to me?" as the supposed dominant thought in his mind when interviewing senior politicians. He called on the television industry to rediscover a sense of purpose.

Books

Paxman's first book, ''A Higher Form of Killing'' (1982), written with then BBC colleague and friend Robert Harris, arose out of an edition of the ''Panorama'' programme they'd made together on biological and chemical warfare. In a revised 2002 version they asserted that Iraq possessed chemical and biological weapons. In 1985 Paxman published ''Through the Volcanoes: A Central American Journey'', an eyewitness account of people, places and politics. ''Friends in High Places: Who Runs Britain?'' (1991) was the result of numerous detailed interviews with the powerful or highly influential, what used to be called The Establishment. Paxman's ''The English: A Portrait of a People'' (1999) was not the first of his books to be greeted with wide critical acclaim. ''The Political Animal: An Anatomy'' (2003), again based on extensive interviews, examines the motivations and methods of those who constitute the author's professional prey: Westminster politicians. The otherwise-republican Paxman's ''On Royalty'', which entailed the cooperation of Britain's royal family, became by the time it was published in 2006, to his own surprise and somewhat to the surprise of others, a defence of the country's constitutional monarchy. His recent books have each been big sellers. His most recent book, ''The Victorians: Britain through the Paintings of the Age'', was accompanied by a BBC documentary series. It was later noted that most of this book was not in fact written by Paxman at all but by the Irish writer Neil Hegarty. Paxman was praised by several academics and figures in the publishing industry for admitting Hegarty's substantial contributions in the book's acknowledgements. Paxman stated that since all television is a "collaborative exercise," it was "rather silly for this book - which accompanies a television series - to appear with only one name on the cover."

Radio

Paxman presented the flagship BBC Radio 4 show ''Start the Week'' from 1998 to 2002.

Awards and honours

In 1996 Paxman received BAFTA's Richard Dimbleby Award for "outstanding presenter in the factual arena." Two years later he won the Royal Television Society's Interviewer of the Year Award for his somewhat notorious ''Newsnight'' interview (see above) with Michael Howard, as well as the Broadcasting Press Guild's award for best "non-acting" performer. He got another Richard Dimbleby Award in 2000 and was nominated for the award in 2001 and 2002. He won the Royal Television Society TV journalism presenter of the year award in 2002 and 2007.

Paxman was given an honorary doctorate by the University of Leeds in the summer of 1999 and in December that year received an honorary degree from the University of Bradford. In 2006 he received an honorary doctorate from the Open University. Among those at the ceremony were three members of the Open University's 1999 ''University Challenge'' team. Paxman is a Fellow by special election of St. Edmund Hall, and an Honorary Fellow of his ''alma mater'', St. Catharine's College, Cambridge.

Personal life

Paxman lives with his partner Elizabeth Ann Clough in Stonor, Oxfordshire. They have three children: Jessica, and twins Victoria and Jack. He supports Leeds United, his favourite player is Billy Paynter. Jeremy enjoys fly fishing in his leisure time. He is vice-chairman of the Wild Trout Trust conservation charity. He is also a patron of the charity Sustrans.

When, in his twenties, Paxman unsuccessfully applied for the vacant editorship of the venerable Labour-supporting weekly ''The New Statesman'', he said he considered himself a socialist. He had previously stood as a Communist candidate in school elections. More recently, he has been described as "the archetypal floating voter", and Jon Snow once said that Paxman's greatest strength was being "not very political". Paxman himself has stated:

''"I do understand we have to have a government, and I do firmly believe in democracy. So it's not true to say I'm not a political person. I am a political person. But I'm not a party political person. I don't believe there is a monopoly of wisdom in any one party. I suppose as one gets older - I would have described it at the age of 21 as the process of selling out, but another way of looking at it is to say, actually, the world is not a very simple place, and that as you get older simple-minded solutions seem less attractive."''

Criticism

Paxman has been publicly criticised over his and his partner's home help arrangements. Having advertised on a Romanian website, they hired two people at below minimum wage without a written contract. While this is not illegal in the UK if employees live in, Paxman, known for grilling interviewees on workers' rights issues, was criticised when his employees went public, claiming to have been paid "the bare minimum".

Paxman's controversial remarks about the Scots have provoked anger at parliamentary level. Twenty Scottish Members of Parliaments signed a House of Commons motion in March 2005 condemning him for comparing supposed Scottish dominance at Westminster to British rule in India: a "Scottish Raj" was running the UK, said Paxman. The row came right after a Cabinet minister had complained that the Newsnight host had been offensive about his Glasgow accent. Paxman's response served further to fan the flames. In an introduction to a new edition of Chambers Dictionary in August 2008 Paxman labelled the work of Scotland's national poet Robert Burns as "sentimental doggerel." Paxman himself is quarter-Scottish through his maternal grandmother, a fact which he stated has led to many of his comments being misunderstood as he regards the Scots "with affection".

Paxman has come under fire from critics of US foreign policy, including fellow journalist John Pilger, for his involvement with the British-American Project about which, according to ''The Guardian'', "even its supporters joke that it's funded by the CIA."

Paxman in popular culture

Paxman became a focus of media attention in his own right in October 2000 when the stolen Enigma machine, which had been taken from Bletchley Park Museum, was inexplicably sent to him in the post. He had it returned to its rightful location. Charlie Brooker once opined in his ''Screen Burn'' columns that one of his new policies for the BBC were he put in charge would be to "let Paxman actually hit people", describing this as "self-explanatory". Similarly, Graeme Garden suggested on ''I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue'' in 1994 that one way to increase ''Newsnight'''s ratings would be to "arm Jeremy Paxman". The grinning green cartoon planet devised by US marketing executives for the cover of US editions of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' (1979) was nicknamed "Jeremy Pacman" by fans.

Bibliography

New edition published as .

References

External links

Biography of Jeremy Paxman, member of the BBC's Press Office, at the official website of the BBC.

Profile of Jeremy Paxman at Speaker's Associates

BBC 'Newsnight' biography of Jeremy Paxman

Official website of BBC's ''Newsnight'' programme

Paxman questioned by fellow-journalists at London's Frontline Club, February 2008

Paxman interviewed at length on the US ''Charlie Rose Show'', June 2007

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name	Adam Curtis
alt	Adam Curtis
birth name	Adam Curtis
birth date	May 26, 1955
death date
nationality	United Kingdom
occupation	Documentarian }}

Adam Curtis (born 1955) is an award-winning British documentarian and writer. He has also worked as a television producer, director and narrator. He works for BBC Current Affairs.

Early life and education

Curtis was born in 1955. He attended the Sevenoaks School, where he was a member of the 'Art Room' that produced musicians Tom Greenhalgh and Mark White of The Mekons, along with Andy Gill and Jon King of Gang of Four.

Curtis completed a Bachelor of Arts in Human Sciences at Mansfield College, University of Oxford, where he studied genetics, evolutionary biology, psychology, politics, sociology and elementary statistics. After graduating, Curtis taught Politics at the University for a time.

Career

He left academia to make a career in television, obtaining a post on ''That's Life!'', a programme that often placed serious and humorous content in close juxtaposition.

Curtis makes extensive use of archive footage in his documentaries. He has acknowledged the influence of recordings made by Erik Durschmied and to "constantly using his stuff in my films". An ''Observer'' profile said of Curtis' style:

: Curtis has a remarkable feel for the serendipity of such moments, and an obsessive skill in locating them. "That kind of footage shows just how dull I can be," he admits, a little glumly. "The BBC has an archive of all these tapes where they have just dumped all the news items they have ever shown. One tape for every three months. So what you get is this odd collage, an accidental treasure trove. You sit in a darkened room, watch all these little news moments, and look for connections."

''The Observer'' adds "if there has been a theme in Curtis's work since, it has been to look at how different elites have tried to impose an ideology on their times, and the tragicomic consequences of those attempts."

Curtis received the Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 2005. In 2006 he was given the Alan Clarke Award for Outstanding Contribution to Television at the British Academy Television Awards. In 2009 Sheffield Doc/Fest awarded Curtis the inaugural Sheffield Inspiration Award for his inspiration to documentary makers and audiences.

Documentaries

Year	Documentary	Subject	Parts	Broadcast on	Awards
1983	''Just Another Day: Walton on the Naze''	Various long-standing British institutions.
1983	''The Tuesday Documentary: Trumpets and Typewriters''	The history of war correspondents.
1984	''Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster''.	The system-built housing of the 1960's.
1984	''Italians: Mayor of Montemilone''	With Dino Labriola
1984	''The Cost Of Treachery''	The Albanian Subversion, a 1949 plot in which the CIA and MI6 attempted to overthrow the Albanian government to weaken the Soviet Union. The counter-agent within the intelligence rank, Kim Philby.
1987	''40 Minutes: Bombay Hotel''	The luxurious Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in Mumbai, contrasted with the poverty of the slums of the city.
1988	''An Ocean Apart''	The process by which the United States was involved in the First World War.	Episode One: "Hats Off to Mr. Wilson".
1989	''40 Minutes: The Kingdom of Fun''	Documentary about the Metro Centre in Gateshead, developed by entrepreneur John Hall. The programme compares John Hall's plans to regenerate the North East, with those of T. Dan Smith.
1989	''Inside Story: The Road To Terror''	How the Iranian Revolution turned from idealism to terror. Draws parallels with the French Revolution two hundred years earlier.
1992			6
1995		The way that history and memory (both national and individual) have been used by politicians and others.	3
1996	''25 Million Pounds''	Nick Leeson and the collapse of Barings Bank.			San Francisco International Film Festival, 1998: Best Science and Nature Documentary
1997	''Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh''	The story, dating back to the 1950s, of the search for a cure to cancer and the impact of Henrietta Lacks, the "woman who will never die" because her cells never stopped reproducing.
1999	''The Mayfair Set''		4
2002	''The Century of the Self''	How Freud's discoveries concerning the unconscious led to Edward Bernays' development of public relations, the use of desire over need and self-actualisation as a means of achieving economic growth and the political control of population.	4	BBC Four, art house cinemas in the US	Broadcast Award: Best Documentary Series; Longman/History Today Awards: Historical Film of the Year; Entertainment Weekly, 2005: fourth best movie
2004	''The Power of Nightmares''	Suggested a parallel between the rise of Islamism in the Arab world and Neoconservatism in the United States in that both needed to inflate a myth of a dangerous enemy in order to draw people to support them.	3	BBC Two
2007		The modern concept of freedom.	3	BBC Two
2007	—	Television news reporters.	1	Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, third episode of the fourth series
2009	—	The rise of "Oh Dear"-ism.	1	''Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe''
2009	''It Felt Like A Kiss''	Mixed media. Broadcast July 2.	1
2010	—	Paranoia and moral panics .	1	''Charlie Brooker's Newswipe'', fourth episode in the second series
2011		The computer as a model of the world around us.	3	BBC Two
2011	''Every Day Is Like Sunday'' (working title)	The dramatic downfall of the newspaper mogul, who used to dominate Britain before Rupert Murdoch arrived.	1

References

External links

"What's the big idea?", interview with Adam Curtis in the Guardian, May 2011

Adam Curtis's blog, BBC

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