What would have been the effect on the BBC had Lord Reith continued to dominate it during and after the last war? Was Reith equal to the great offices of state to which ihe aspired?
!These two questions are conisidered by Oliver Whitley. 'member of the BBC's Board of Management 1964-71, on the .occasion of the publication of selections from The Reith Diaries edited by Charles Stuart. followed by an interlude