Television News Power (Season 1, Episode 4)
TV Episode | Documentary

Television

News Power (Season 1, Episode 4)

TV Episode | Documentary

Examines how the news grew in importance as the ability to transmit live feeds developed - and how worldwide newsrooms emulate the U.S. market. Includes insight on the McCarthy hearings, the election and death of JFK, race riots, and more.

Director

Michael Beckham

Producer

Michael Beckham

Composer

Alan Parker

Editors

Anthony Ham | Colin Heron | Alan Swain

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Updated Mar 5, 1985

Release date

Mar 5, 1985 (United Kingdom)

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29 cast members

Name	Known for
Ian Holm Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Paul Fox Self Self See fewer	Panorama (I) (1953)
Richard Cawston Self Self See fewer	This Is the BBC (1959)
Hugh Greene Self Self See fewer	The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971)
Fred W. Friendly Self Self See fewer	CBS Reports (1959)
Christopher Chataway Self Self See fewer	Champion: The Franz Stampfl Story
John Lewis Self Self See fewer	John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020)
Nicholas Katzenbach Self Self See fewer	Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
Pierre Salinger Self Self See fewer	The Destructors (1974)
Walter Cronkite Self Self See fewer	Liberty's Kids (2002)
David Nicholas Self Self See fewer	The English Programme (1976)
Tarô Kimura Self Self See fewer	World Hot Journal (2013)
Michael Nicholson Self Self See fewer	Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
Peter Kendall Self Self See fewer	Television (1985)
Robin Day Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Sykes and a Big Big Show (1971)
Peter Jennings Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (1953)
Jacqueline Kennedy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	A Tour of the White House (1962)
John F. Kennedy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Profiles in Courage (1964)
Martin Luther King Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Freedom Writers (2007)
Joseph McCarthy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	American Forum of the Air (1950)
Edward P. Morgan Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	1960 Presidential Debates (1960)
Edward R. Murrow Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Lee Harvey Oswald Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Frontline (1983)
Queen Elizabeth II Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Civilisation (1969)
Dan Rather Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	CBS Evening News (1963)
Ronald Reagan Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Kings Row (1942)
Lesley Stahl Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Eagle Eye (2008)
David Walter Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Decision 79 (1979)
Joseph N. Welch Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Anatomy of a Murder (1959)