Outside Parliament
He appeared briefly as himself in the 1985 BBC Television drama serial Edge of Darkness.
In 1988 he lost a libel action against the journalist Alan Watkins, who had written an article in November 1984 which included the remark "Mr Meacher likes to claim that he is the son of an agricultural labourer, though I understand that his father was an accountant who retired to work on the family farm because the life suited him better."
Meacher is a member of the Fabian Society.
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