UK Confidential/ Cabinet Confidential
 
Since 1999 Takeaway Media has had exclusive advanced access to the government records released in the public records office on 1st January, under the Thirty Year Rule.
Each years programme has revealed government secrets and the thinking behind key events and decisions, from race relations to Concorde, Northern Ireland to Afghanistan.

Uk Confidential explores the main themes confronting the relevant UK government of the day thirty years previously. From 1999 to 2002 UK Confidential was broadcast on BBC2. From 2005 onwards UK Confidential has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as a co-production with Whistledown Productions.

Cabinet Confidential explores the detailed policy issues thrown up by the files regarding Northern Ireland. It was broadcast from 2003 to 2006 on BBC One Northern Ireland.
 
Churchill Confidential was a BBC Radio 4 drama documentary (with Whistledown Productions) based on the new release of the Cabinet Secretaries' Notebooks from World War Two. The story of Churchill's last administration was similarly covered in Churchill Confidential - Return to Power. Meanwhile Atlee Confidential was  based on the Cabinet Secretaries Notebooks relating to the 1945 - 51 Atlee government.
 
 

 

Click the links below for the PRO website showing the most important documents of each year.
 
UK Confidential 2007 Cabinet Confidential 2006
UK Confidential 2006 Cabinet Confidential 2005
UK Confidential Dec 2005 Cabinet Confidential 2004
UK Confidential Jan 2005 Cabinet Confidential 2003
UK Confidential 2002 Atlee Confidential 2007
UK Confidential 2001 Churchill Confidential 2008
UK Confidential 1999 Churchill Confidential 2006