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Bbc Programmes (Unused Material)

Volume 722: debated on Wednesday 15 December 1965

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83.

asked the Postmaster-General, if, in his further talks with the British Broadcasting Corporation Governors on finance, he will discuss the amount spent on producing programmes which were not eventually broadcast.

No. It is inevitable that, in the production of many thousand hours of programme material, a proportion of it will be unusable. I have no reason to believe that the amount of money involved is significant in the context of programme expenditure generally.