The phone hacking saga is exciting interest in the United States - this follows The New York Times spending months investigating practices at the News of the World.

a decision that Rupert Murdoch knows is probably not unconnected with his ownership of the Wall Street Journal and his wider interests in newspapers and cable television in the United States. So the story that's unravelling involving the police, a string of politicians and celebrities, and Mr Murdoch's company here is being watched across the Atlantic.

Today's James Naughtie spoke to Sir Harold Evans, who as editor of the Sunday Times in the sixties was a pioneer of investigative journalism and now lives in New York, where he maintains a close interest in British journalism.

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