BBC plans dramas on run- up to Iraq war . The Jeremy Paxman- fronted news programme will then analyse the events portrayed in the drama. The writer Ronan Bennett said the films would not exploit hindsight, but . Roly Keating, BBC2's controller, who has also been acting controller of BBC1 since last October, said that the project would be the first collaboration of its kind between BBC News and the corporation's multimedia production arm, BBC Vision. Speaking to the Broadcasting Press Guild, Keating said the part of Tony Blair had not yet been cast, although filming had already begun in Jordan. The season, designed to be a multimedia event across the BBC website, You. Tube and BBC4, seems sure to revisit some of the issues involved in the damaging row over Iraq between the government and the corporation. A disagreement over a report on Radio 4's Today programme escalated into a bitter dispute that led to the Hutton report and the ousting of the BBC's chairman, Gavyn Davies, and its director general, Greg Dyke, in 2. Newsnight editor Peter Barron said the run- up to the war was the story viewers wanted to revisit more than any other. Keating, who took on the BBC1 job when Peter Fincham was forced out amid a row over a misleading clip of the Queen, will hand over the reigns to Jay Hunt when she rejoins the BBC from Channel Five in the spring. He also confirmed that Little Dorrit, adapted by the period drama specialist Andrew Davies, would be the next Charles Dickens novel to get the soap- style treatment pioneered by Bleak House. The BBC meanwhile was yesterday embarrassed by two further examples of faked competitions. The director general, Mark Thompson, told the BBC Trust that Jo Whiley's Radio 1 show, already shown to have misled listeners on another occasion in 2. The BBC's 6 Music, whose director of programmes, Ric Blaxill, has already resigned over revelations of faked competitions, was also found to have invented a competition winner during the Russell Brand Show in April 2. Thompson said measures put in place last year after a high- profile series of trust crises, including a training programme for all editorial staff, were bearing fruit. An independent study on their effectiveness by a former BBC executive, Ron Neil, will report in the spring. Kenneth Branagh is to star in a series of Newsnight-produced dramas about the Iraq war. BBC to Mark Iraq War. The Iraq War; Dates – TV review 12 June 2013 5:00 PM, -06:00 . See all 4 related articles » Create a. Iraq war drama is 'very intense. Why should people watch this one?
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