A 1984 "Panorama" programme called "Maggie's Militant Tendency" was approved by Douglas and said some Conservative Party Members of Parliament (MP) had links to far-right groups, causing uproar. She was privately disappointed when the BBC awarded out of court libel damages to the MPs Neil Hamilton and Gerald Howarth. Douglas also oversaw a 1985 "Real Lives" programme that featured an interview of a member from the Irish terrorist group, the Irish National Liberation Army, and anger from the Chairman of the Conservative Party, Norman Tebbit, over his perception that the journalist Kate Adie held an Anti-American stance over the countries' bombing of Libya in 1986.