Roger Cook and the iron bar

probably one of the best known investigative journalists the UK has ever known is Roger Cook. He shot to fame with the Radio 4 programme Checkpoint where he confronted wrong doers with evidence of their crimes. One such instance was his clash with notorious Rock manager Don (father of Sharon Osbourne) Arden which had Arden threatening Cook with a writ that never was served. Arden's career was never the same again. Cook would do work for other BBC Radio and TV programmes such as Newsnight for which he did a piece about dealer selling fake antiques as the geniue article. Having caught one such dealer on tape to admitting to his crimes, Cook confronts him with the evidence only for the dealer to attack him and the rest of the crew with an iron bar with Cook himself suffering 3 cracked ribs. Cook's big claim to fame was when he moved to present The Cook Report for 12 years between 1987 and 1999 which saw him tackle issues like protection rackets, big game poaching and terrorism in his own unique manner.

You can see Roger Cook's run in the fake antiques dealer on Youtube