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PDF 79 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 79 Aug 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Gow minute to MT ("B.B.C. - External Services") [Ray Whitney MP writes to argue against cuts to BBC External Services] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Oct 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 letter to FCO ("Overseas Broadcasts") [cuts to BBC External Services; MT concerned at potential damage to foreign language programmes] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: BBC Chairman Michael Swann letter to MT (BBC External Services) [offers to meet with MT to discuss] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Oct 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Gilmour minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Cuts: BBC External Services") [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: James minute to MT (brief for MT's meeting with BBC Chairman) [BBC External Services, objectivity of BBC coverage] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Blaker) [proposed cuts to BBC External Services] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Nov 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Lankester minute to MT ("BBC External Services") [details of BBC spending] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Nov 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: MT note to Lankester (BBC External Services) ["I can't make head or tail of BBC external services financing"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 ("Public Expenditure Cuts: BBC External Services") [proposed cuts] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 ("Public Expenditure Cuts: BBC External Services") [possibilities for avoiding proposed cuts] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 ("Public Expenditure Cuts: BBC External Services") [FCO support for BBC Capital Expenditure Programme] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: FCO minute ("BBC External Services") [FCO contact with BBC to discuss BBC public expenditure cuts] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 79 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Blaker-Jopling-Lawson-Nick Ridley-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["BBC External Services"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Blaker minute to MT (BBC External Services) [report of Blaker-Nick Ridley-Acting Director General of the BBC Mansell-Gregson meeting] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: FCO record of telephone conversation (Blaker-Acting Director General of the BBC Mansell) [BBC capital expenditure, BBC External Services] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Nov 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 79 Nov 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("BBC External Services") [Whitelaw speaks with BBC Chairman Michael Swann] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Nov 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 ("BBC External Services") [BBC capital expenditure to be cut in exchange for keeping External Services; MT: "If we go back on that there will only be another row"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Armstrong briefing for MT ("BBC External Services (OD(80)1)") [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Feb 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Carrington minute to MT (BBC External Services) [expenditure cuts] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Carrington minute to MT ("BBC External Services") [further progress on expenditure cuts] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Carrington minute to MT ("BBC External Services") [decisions required on expenditure cuts: "We must expect a row in the House of Commons"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Armstrong minute to Alexander ("BBC External Services") [Carrington's proposals on expenditure cuts] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 letter to FCO ("BBC External Services") [MT agrees to early Ministerial discussion of Carrington's proposals on expenditure cuts] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("BBC External Services") ["I have grave doubts about the wisdom of the approach [Carrington] advocates"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("BBC External Services (OD(81) 28)") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Jopling minute to MT ("BBC External Services") ["I am becoming increasingly alarmed at the Party's reaction to these proposals"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nick Ridley circular letter (BBC External Services) [details of Government plans for BBC expenditure cuts] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Sep 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("BBC External Services") ["I believe that we now have to seek the best compromise we can get to avoid serious embarrassment in the House of Commons"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Sep 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Armstrong briefing for MT ("BBC External Services (OD(81) 42 and 45)") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Atkins message to Carrington ("BBC External Services") [opposition in Parliament to cuts to BBC expenditure; compromise solution] [declassified 2011]
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