In 1968, four of Britain's most powerful men gathered behind closed doors to discuss an almost unthinkable question: whether the elected government could no longer govern, and whether Britain needed saving by an unelected emergency administration...
In this episode, we explore this alleged plot involving media mogul Cecil King, Fleet Street editor Hugh Cudlipp and Lord Mountbatten himself. Historian Stephen Dorril, author of 'Smear! Wilson and the Secret State', guides us through the evidence, the personalities and the myths surrounding that fateful meeting.
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