1979 May 25 - 1981 Oct 22
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/394
Broadcasting (BBC External Services)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2011 Dec 30 |
| Classification: | Confidential |
| Page count: | 203 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 79 Jun 12 Tu | Major | Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 ("BBC Vernacular Services") [MT: "I hope they will not make cuts in BBC services to Communist countries"] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Aug 24 Fr | Major | Broadcasting: Gow minute to MT ("B.B.C. - External Services") [Ray Whitney MP writes to argue against cuts to BBC External Services] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Oct 2 Tu | Major | Broadcasting: No.10 letter to FCO ("Overseas Broadcasts") [cuts to BBC External Services; MT concerned at potential damage to foreign language programmes] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Oct 3 We | Major | Broadcasting: BBC Chairman Michael Swann letter to MT (BBC External Services) [offers to meet with MT to discuss] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Oct 27 Sa | Major | Broadcasting: Gilmour minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Cuts: BBC External Services") [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 1 Th | Major | Broadcasting: James minute to MT (brief for MT's meeting with BBC Chairman) [BBC External Services, objectivity of BBC coverage] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 2 Fr | Major | Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Blaker) [proposed cuts to BBC External Services] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 4 Su | Major | Broadcasting: Lankester minute to MT ("BBC External Services") [details of BBC spending] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 4 Su | Major | Broadcasting: MT note to Lankester (BBC External Services) ["I can't make head or tail of BBC external services financing"] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 5 Mo | Major | Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 ("Public Expenditure Cuts: BBC External Services") [proposed cuts] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 5 Mo | Major | Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 ("Public Expenditure Cuts: BBC External Services") [possibilities for avoiding proposed cuts] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 5 Mo | Major | Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 ("Public Expenditure Cuts: BBC External Services") [FCO support for BBC Capital Expenditure Programme] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 6 Tu | Major | Broadcasting: FCO minute ("BBC External Services") [FCO contact with BBC to discuss BBC public expenditure cuts] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 7 We | Major | Broadcasting: Home Office letter to No.10 (cuts to BBC External Services) [BBC would like to use Home Service income on External Services: "We do not believe this is possible"] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 8 Th | Major | Broadcasting: BBC Chairman Michael Swann letter to MT (thanks for meeting) [apologises for leak about meeting, ITV pay rise, cuts to BBC External Services, Pete Murray and BBC objectivity] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 8 Th | Major | Broadcasting: Pattison minute to MT (follow-up to MT's meeting with BBC Chairman Michael Swann) [BBC Panorama story on IRA at Carrickmore; cuts to BBC External Services] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 12 Mo | Major | Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Blaker-Jopling-Lawson-Nick Ridley-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["BBC External Services"] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 12 Mo | Major | Broadcasting: Blaker minute to MT (BBC External Services) [report of Blaker-Nick Ridley-Acting Director General of the BBC Mansell-Gregson meeting] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 13 Tu | Major | Broadcasting: FCO record of telephone conversation (Blaker-Acting Director General of the BBC Mansell) [BBC capital expenditure, BBC External Services] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 17 Sa | Major | Broadcasting: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Carrington ("OD(80)1: BBC External Services") [Chancellor and MT opposed to "wise man" review of economies in the External Services] [declassified 2011] |