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Bbc Foreign Broadcasts

Volume 360: debated on Thursday 2 May 1940

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85.

asked the Minister of Information whether the foreign broadcasts of the British Broadcasting Corporation are subject to censorship; and whether he is satisfied with the adequacy of the present machinery to ensure that nothing shall be included in these broadcasts which would provide information of value to the enemy?

The British Broadcasting Corporation is subject in its foreign broadcasts to the normal censorship requirements applying also to the Press. As to the second part of the Question, all machinery is frequently under review and on the whole it operates satisfactorily.