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When the row between Government and the Today programme erupted, Lindley felt again that moment of nervousness that was familiar to him and most of his contemporaries at Panorama, the BBC current affairs flagship that is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. The fact that they were often paranoid did not always mean that somebody wasn't out to get them, he recalls - "We might have felt pleased and proud to have got a story on air but we knew there would be repercussions, and sometimes we could not tell how far our colleagues and our bosses in the BBC would support us. Occasionally, facing hostile reaction, we might wish we'd told the story just slightly differently."
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