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Reference code
OBS/1/2/2/2/40
Title
British Broadcasting Corporation
Date(s)
- 1942-1981 (Creation)
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1 file
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General file regarding the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Contains correspondence and memorandums concerning: subscription services; the 1975 BBC documentary report 'Crisis at the Observer'; broadcasts on the state of the newspaper market; the journalists' trade unions; advertisements; corrections; children's television; the printing of publicity material; travel expenses; requests to reproduce quotes and print material; the movement of news to the front page of the newspaper.
Primary correspondents include: Roger Harrison; BBC; Tristan Jones; Elywin Parry Jones; Geoffrey Whatmore; Charles Curran.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison
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HF12
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- Harrison; Desmond Roger Wingate (1933-); managing director and chief executive of The Observer (Subject)
- Whatmore; Geoffrey (1920-2015); librarian (Subject)
- Jones; Tristan (1913-1990); managing director of The Observer (Subject)
- British Broadcasting Corporation (1922-); broadcaster (Subject)
- Curran; Sir; Charles John (1921-1980); knight, broadcasting administrator (Subject)
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