A personal history of the BBC
1: The European Service Leonard Miall joined the BBC early in 1039 as a member of its recently formed German Service. Later he became the BBC's first peace-time correspondent In
Washington and then worked In BBC television in the formative years of bothBBC1andBBC2.In the first of five talks he remembers, among other things. his fiery encounter with General de Gaulle in 1940.