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Originally Posted by garinda
I think the people involved went to the press, to talk of their historic attempted coup, rather than it suddenly being uncovered by hacks.
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It was actually the other way around. There was a lengthy documentary made for a DVD release of 1990s
Doctor Who that would have been and it cropped up. Someone somewhere picked it up and ran with it as a hidden BBC scandal of the day and thus something which has been common 'knowledge' for years is now a news story.
All these people have now moved on and it was only ever a perceived undertone anyway. The saddest irony of all is that Sylvester McCoy has got more news exposure as the Doctor now than he ever did at the time.
I'm sure if we all looked hard enough we could see spurious bias in lots of other programmes we all grew up with. Lenny Henry, who was blatantly open about the government is his programmes, hasn't had a look in.