Letter: BBC injunction fails audience
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: The precedent that would have been created by allowing the BBC to broadcast in Scotland an interview with the Prime Minister three days before local elections would have had even more profound effects than the interdict secured.
Not only the BBC, but every other TV and radio channel, could have defended future breaches of the impartiality guidelines by reference to this case. A watershed event was prevented at, admittedly, great risk.
Yours sincerely,
J. D. PERTWEE
Canterbury, Kent
5 April
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