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What Boris said to Darius...

If you want to hear London's mayor discussing a plan to beat up a journalist then tonight's Channel 4 Dispatches programme, The trouble with Boris, should not be missed.

It will include taped extracts of the infamous 1990 conversation between Boris Johnson and Darius Guppy in which Johnson agreed to help Guppy obtain the address of News of the World reporter Stuart Collier. Guppy can be heard explaining that he was hiring someone to give the journalist a severe beating.

The hour-long programme, which starts at 8pm, also looks at Johnson's mayoral record over the past year, but reporter Antony Barnett doesn't seem too impressed.

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