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Professor Howard Tumber, Dean of the School of Social and Human Sciences, is conducting a sociological study into the making of the new BBC series, MacIntye Undercover.
The series features former City student Donal MacIntyre. The five programmes, which are currently being broadcast at peak time on Tuesday evenings, are the most Donal studiedin the Department of Sociology (1992-94) and successfully completed the MA course in Communications Policy. In the high-profile series MacIntyre, as an undercover reporter, has adopted the role of a football hooligan, a care Before working for the BBC, MacIntrye went 'undercover' for World in Action where for 11 months he lived the life of a bouncer in Nottingham to expose the drug trade. The programmes’ evidence led to police investigations and won two Royal Television Society awards. Howard, who has been given unique access to the production process from the start of the investigations, He has interviewed MacIntyre on several occasions while he was working undercover and observed him working in A colloquium is planned in the spring at City to discuss some of the production and ethical issues involved in this series and investigative journalism more generally.
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