Clive Bradley is a journalist and lawyer. He studied law at Cambridge and Yale, and became involved in politics as broadcasting aide to Harold Wilson and the Labour Party for the 1964 General Election. He has worked in broadcasting, newspaper and book publishing and has been deeply involved as a lobbyist in the move to world-changing digital.

In the thick of it. This is where Clive Bradley has spent his amazingly full and busy life - in that complex landscape where national politics, big business, and the media pursue their tangled interactions. For a half-century and more he had a finger in every pie. He knew a lot of the key personalities involved, was an agent in their negotiations - and can remember the shifting events of those years in astonishing detail. His memoir will be source material for anyone studying the political and social development of Britain since the Second World War.Michael Frayn

• About ACT 1 START UP1 Upminster boy Interlude Paul Mellon 2 My father, Alfred Bradley3 My mother, Kathleen Bradley 4 Bar and BBC ACT 2 PARTY POLITICSInterlude The 1964 election 5 Labour HQ 6 Broadcasting and Harold Wilson ACT 3 FROM BROADCASTING TO PRINTInterlude Hugh Cudlipp and Ted Pickering Interlude Fleet Street as it was7 IPC, Statist and Daily Mirror Interlude Stafford Beer, The Big Project Interlude Rupert Murdoch 8 The Observer Interlude Lord Goodman ACT 4 BOOKSInterlude Book publishing as it was 9 Publishers Association Interlude John Calder 10 Campaigning - and defending Interlude: Eat out to help out 11 Trade with China and USSR Interlude Paul Hamlyn and the 1988 IPA Congress Interlude Robert Maxwell ACT 5 DIGITAL12 The Shock of the New Envoi Nine lives and other talesIndex

Clive Bradley is a journalist and lawyer. He studied law at Cambridge and Yale, and became involved in politics as broadcasting aide to Harold Wilson and the Labour Party for the 1964 General Election. He has worked in broadcasting, newspaper and book publishing and has been deeply involved as a lobbyist in the move to world-changing digital.

In the thick of it. This is where Clive Bradley has spent his amazingly full and busy life - in that complex landscape where national politics, big business, and the media pursue their tangled interactions. For a half-century and more he had a finger in every pie. He knew a lot of the key personalities involved, was an agent in their negotiations - and can remember the shifting events of those years in astonishing detail. His memoir will be source material for anyone studying the political and social development of Britain since the Second World War.Michael Frayn

• About ACT 1 START UP1 Upminster boy Interlude Paul Mellon 2 My father, Alfred Bradley3 My mother, Kathleen Bradley 4 Bar and BBC ACT 2 PARTY POLITICSInterlude The 1964 election 5 Labour HQ 6 Broadcasting and Harold Wilson ACT 3 FROM BROADCASTING TO PRINTInterlude Hugh Cudlipp and Ted Pickering Interlude Fleet Street as it was7 IPC, Statist and Daily Mirror Interlude Stafford Beer, The Big Project Interlude Rupert Murdoch 8 The Observer Interlude Lord Goodman ACT 4 BOOKSInterlude Book publishing as it was 9 Publishers Association Interlude John Calder 10 Campaigning - and defending Interlude: Eat out to help out 11 Trade with China and USSR Interlude Paul Hamlyn and the 1988 IPA Congress Interlude Robert Maxwell ACT 5 DIGITAL12 The Shock of the New Envoi Nine lives and other talesIndex