Chris Smith and the birth of the DCMS: Sometimes dealing with the Treasury was like stirring treacle

As the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport reaches its 25th anniversary, its first secretary of state, and still one of the most successful, remembers a time of Task Forces, a schmoozing PM and heated arguments over aesthetic values.

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