I'm Razzia Iqbal in conversation with the newspaper man whose name has become a byword for serious investigative journalism.

I kept this book, what here is this?

This is my scrapbook 1942. I cut things out of the newspapers and I

wrote headlines and stuck them down. Legendary British newspaper editor Harold Evans obsession with journalism began early.

He was 14 in 1942 and as we peruse through his past in his Upper East Side New York apartment, it's clear that he

had a precocious interest in news, and his memories testify to the profound impact of the

war. Harry's history is very present.

So in a way, what these books that you've kept, Harry, I mean the ones that we're looking

at of cutting out reporting of the war.

Yes.

This was a real manifestation of your obsession with reporting.

And laying it out and the headlines and the

right in the captions.

The layout is really interesting that you actually were

laying out pictures as though you were an edit stuff. I was writing the captions. I

was careful to keep the captions in. I was careful to mix up the

photography and choosing really good

displays, you know, first know your enemy what how to recognize the German

planes. So I thought I was writing history you see. and when each letter you read was set in metal plates and newspapers literally rolled off

fast presses he changed what was possible in telling truth to power. He gave voice to the voiceless, risked going to jail and changed British

law. He's Sir Harry now, but his working class northern beginnings are never far from his mind, nor is the single thing that has

dominated his life, the truth. The questions came to him early during the Second World War.

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