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Bombs, Betrayals and Broadcasts: The Man Who Risked Everything for the BBC

During the 1970s and ’80s, Sir Richard Francis oversaw fuel runs across IRA checkpoints, greenlit broadcasts of a politician’s killers, and stood firm against PM Margaret Thatcher, all to defend the BBC’s editorial independence. His son, Stephen R.W. Francis, has just published the first memoir of his father and here tells the true story of the Beeb’s Last Warrior-Statesman.

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