page_title: After Dark (TV programme)
section_title: "Winston Churchill"
hierarchical_section_title: After Dark (TV programme) / Notable guests and programmes / Series Two / "Winston Churchill"
caption_attribution_description: English: David Irving appearing on After Dark on 28 May 1988. Other guests with that week's host Trevor Hyett (in foreground) included Lord Hailsham, Anthony Montague Browne, David Reynolds and Jack Jones. More here.
context_page_description: After Dark was a British late-night live discussion programme broadcast on Channel 4 television between 1987 and 1997, and on the BBC in 2003. Roly Keating of the BBC described it as "one of the great television talk formats of all time" and the Daily Mail called it "the most intelligent, thought-provoking and interesting programme ever to have been on television". In 2010 the television trade magazine Broadcast wrote "After Dark defined the first 10 years of Channel 4, just as Big Brother did for the second" and in 2018 the programme was cited in an editorial in The Times as an example of high-quality television.
  Broadcast live and with no scheduled end time, the series, inspired by an Austrian programme called Club 2, was considered to be a groundbreaking reinvention of the discussion programme format. The programme was hosted by a variety of presenters, and each episode had around half a dozen guests, often including a member of the public.
context_section_description: The Socialist Worker described the 28 May 1988 edition of "my favourite chat show":
  "Winston Churchill: Hero or Madman?".... Unfortunately the character arguing this was none other than the "historian" David Irving.... Here sat a man who was pro-Hitler, who was insulting the legendary Churchill. Facing him was a guy... who had been Churchill's private secretary for ten or so years. And there was Lord Hailsham, who as Quintin Hogg had been a Tory MP at the time. But it was not Irving they reserved their contempt and anger for. Occasionally they got a bit annoyed by him, but it was the left representative they despised... dear old respectable Jack Jones, former leader of the transport workers' union.
  As the Radio Times wrote later: "The most explosive argument was between Lord Hailsham and veteran trade unionist Jack Jones. There was... 50 years of hate between them."
caption: David Irving on After Dark
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