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On the Spot!

on BBC Television

with BBC Outside Broadcast cameras for the public hearing of Get Ahead.
The first of eight programmes in the 1960 competition organised by the News Chronicle which offers £7,500 in prize money.
Contestants who have come through the eliminating stages of the competition are ' On the Spot' to prove that they could make the best and most successful use of the top prize of £5,000, to 'Get Ahead'.
This week: Men under thirty who are employees with a spare-time business interest of their own.
The Judges: Sir Miles Thomas, Alderman Mrs. Pearl Hyde, W. J. Carron
Chairman of the Judges, John Coope
Introduced by Peter West.
From the Carlton Rooms, Maida Vale

Contributors

Judge:
Sir Miles Thomas
Judge:
Alderman Mrs. Pearl Hyde
Judge:
W. J. Carron
Chairman of the Judges:
John Coope
Presenter:
Peter West
Presented for television by:
Humphrey Fisher

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