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BBC Radio 4's Analysis: Knowing Too Much is broadcast on Monday 26 October at 20.30 BST.
As a journalist covering the home affairs and politics briefs for more than a decade, Martin Bright has made a career out of unearthing secrets.
He has been the recipient of stories leaked by government officials prepared to breach the Official Secrets Act, such as the former GCHQ whistleblower Katharine Gun. Having been something of a freedom of information fundamentalist, he now questions his former obsession with total disclosure.
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I spend so much of my time now dealing with openness that I'm positively nostalgic for secrecy and discretion…
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In this programme he explores whether there might be some virtue in governments, as well as individuals, rediscovering an old fashioned kind of secrecy once called discretion.
Interviewees include: Stella Rimington - author and former head of M15 Rear Admiral Nick Wilkinson - former head of the D Notice committee which advises media organisations on intelligence and military issues Katharine Gun - former Mandarin translator and whistleblower at GCHQ, the government´s communications intelligence agency Derek Pasquill - Whistleblower and former Foreign Office civil servant Heather Brooke journalist and Freedom of Information campaigner Lisa Jardine - Historian, author and chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority Max Van Manen - educational psychologist at the University of Alberta, Canada Tony Wright MP Martin Bright is Political Editor of the Jewish Chronicle and blogs for
The Spectator
. He is a former Home Affairs Editor of The Observer and a former Political Editor of The New Statesman.
Coming Up BBC Economics Editor Stephanie Flanders asks how much credibility economics has left after the financial crisis.
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