The Government has spent almost £2 million to fund programmes that are all but indistinguishable from regular shows, The Sunday Telegraph has established. But unlike normal documentaries, the programmes are commissioned by ministers with the purpose of showing their policies or activities in a sympathetic light.
Media freedom campaigners, broadcasters and opposition politicians expressed alarm over the Government-funded documentaries.
The Government has funded at least eight television series or individual programmes in the past five years.
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