BBC R4 Documentary - 'The FBI At 100'
Written & Presented by Tom Mangold
Research by Sarah Hann
Produced by Adam Fowler
Broadcast March, 2008

Coded from tape at 128/44.1

This programme was broadcast in two formats:

i) Short episodes each weekday for two weeks

ii) Two consolidated (Omnibus) programmes containing
the material from the ten weekday programmes.

Included here are the two consolidated programmes.

Part 1 Broadcast March 7, 2008

From establishment of the bureau in 1908 to the 1960s'
civil rights movement.

Part 2 Broadcast March 14, 2008

From J Edgar Hoover's death in 1972 to the present
and a look at what the future holds for the bureau.

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The short episodes were billed as follows:

March 03 The Bureau is born in 1908.

March 04 Don't Shoot G Man Don't Shoot.
J Edgar Hoover, already having achieved iconic status,
takes on the big gangsters of the thirties.

March 05 A Good War
FBI agents forestall the Nazi threat in their own homeland
and take the fight to South America.

March 06 Commies, Bugging & Secret Files
All-powerful secret policeman J Edgar Hoover bugs most
of his enemies but not the Mafia.

March 07 Dirty Tricks
Hoover versus Martin Luther King. The FBI takes on the
new hero of the civil rights movement and fights dirty.

March 10 End of the Empire
J Edgar Hoover finally relinquishes his grip over the
FBI and America - by dying.

March 11 The Mafia & the Mob on Wheels
With Hoover gone, the FBI finally takes on the Mafia
and confronts another mob, the Hell's Angels.

March 12 The Federal Bureau of Incompetence
The FBI fails to cope with the high-tech computer age
and discovers that one of its own is a traitor.

March 13 The Catastrophe
The FBI failed to anticipate or prevent the biggest
attack on America of all time.

March 14 Tomorrow's Bureau
Can the FBI meet the challenges of cyber crime, new
intelligence threats, and the never-ending war on terror?