From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story on Saturday. I'm Manving Rana.

This week, the downfall of the former BBC news anchor Hugh Edwards was dramatised by Channel 5,

with the actor Martin Cloons in the lead role.

It portrayed the events leading up to his catastrophic fall from grace.

Andrew Billen, who writes brilliant features for the Times, met Hugh Edwards on several occasions,

including the day before his world imploded.

He wrote a fascinating and insightful piece in the paper this week,

reflecting on the man he knew.

So we asked him to read it. The most important thing about the Jeffrey Epstein affair, everyone says, is his victims.

They then proceed to fixate on the sex trafficker himself, Gillane Maxwell, Andrew Markatton-Winzer, and Peter Madison.

Conversely, although this week's Channel 5 drama on the faintly comparable Hugh Edwards' affair

was sold on the former news anchor's name. In fact, power, the downfall of Hugh Edwards, with Martin Clunes in the title role,

concentrated less on him than Ryan, the 17-year-old from South Wales,

whom he bullied and bribed to do his wishes.

And I applaud it for that.

Nevertheless, one day someone may truly dramatise the fall of Hugh Edwards.

Perhaps it will even be with this help, since he has made it clear about its unhappiness

that Channel 5 did not seek his side of the story for its film.

Such a drama would be a study of a trusted, highly capable, but troubled man, a hero in his own

mind, but one whose flaws were too sordid even to earn his fall, the palliative adjective, tragic.

I hope Clunes is asked to play him again, and I hope Clunes, who is a fine man who, in the most

minor way, himself lived a few years in the eyes of the tabloids and later

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