From the Suez crisis to naming the Omagh bombers, by way of the spoof spaghetti harvest and Princess Diana's seismic revelations that 'there were three of us in this marriage' - Panorama has been the flagshit of BBC journalism for half a century.

In this updated paperback edition, Richard Lindley - for fifteen years a Panorama reporter - charts the programme's voyage from its humble beginnings through its glory days with television giants like Richard Dimbleby, Ludovic Kennedy, Robert Kee and Robin Day, and their successors like David Dimbleby, Tom Mangold and John Ware.

He reveals the inside story of how Panorama reporters and producers have struggled - with powerful interests, with their BBC boses, and with each other - to survive.

Revealing, disturbing, funny, Panorama - Fifty Years of Pride and Paranoia provides a timely chronicle of the longest running current affairs television programme in the world.