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Media Masters - John Sweeney
44 minutes Posted Nov 23, 2015 at 5:00 am.
ISIS brainwashing and reporting the Syrian war
Maintaining sanity in a warzone
What motivates him as a journalist
The Church of Scientology and his famous on-screen 'meltdown'
Redundancy and BBC charter renewal
"The best thing I have ever done..."
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Investigative journalist John Sweeney is known for what he calls his "explosive" documentaries at BBC Panorama. In this intimate interview, he says what it was like to be harassed by the Church of Scientology; explains how he challenged the evidence of Professor Roy Meadow to help free cot death mum Sally Clark and six others, and recounts the challenges of going undercover in war zones like Chechnya, Zimbabwe and North Korea.
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