Today, BBC 5 Live and Radio 4 both featured the actor Hugh Grant talking about the NotW phone-hacking scandal.

Grant had his own phone hacked of course, and got his own back partly by secretly recording a former NotW journalist and getting his confession on tape.

On Radio 4, Grant said: “Brooks & Coulson are either the worst editors in history of the world or they’re liars.”

Listen (3 min)

On 5 Live, Hugh Grant discussed with the former News of the World journalist Paul McMullan, who he secretly recorded talking about phone hacking earlier.
Interview from here

Listen (19min)

Reader comments

1. Jon

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2. sunny hundal

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3. Nemesis Republic

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7. Ed Allen

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10. Free Hetherington

    http://t.co/43BFWH8 Hugh Grant (actor): "Asking Rebekah Brooks to clean up NI is like asking Hitler to reform the Nazi Party."

11. Daniel Barnett

    Hugh Grant compares Rebekah Brooks cleaning up News Interntl to Hitler cleaning up the Nazi party on R4 http://bit.ly/jD6rtx at 1:25. Ouch.

12. Gary Banham

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13. David Smith

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14. milli tant

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15. Mags W

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16. TBP Portsmouth

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17. Fredrik Carlsson

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18. Roxane Farley

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19. Paul Trembath

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21. Politics Worldwide

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22. Will Wilcox

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23. J. Gunner

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24. News of The World axed following phone hacking revelations, David Cameron under pressure to distance himself from Rebekah Brooks, and Ed Miliband on repeat: round up of political blogs for 2 – 8 July | British Politics and Policy at LSE

    [...] The Staggers suggests that the tabloid’s behaviour marks a new low in the whole phone hacking saga, as Liberal Conspiracy reveals how little coverage the Murdoch-owned Sun newspaper gave to the story. Left Foot Forward also notes that other tabloids have been virtually silent. Angry Mob argues that the latest revelations are a timely wake-up call to the state of media ethics in the UK, and Hugh Grant gave some lively interviews on the subject. [...]

25. Jordan Millward

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