A Spectator's Notebook
ONE OF THE aac's self-imposed rules, which it has honourably tried to obey in the past, is that when a programme is re- corded the audience is in- formed of the fact. I under- stand that on the evening of the last election broadcast Mr. Macmillan appeared at Lime Grove in time for—as the BBC thought— a live appearance; but his broadcast had already been made and put on 'Ampex' some hours before. There is no reason why the Prime Minis- ter should not, if he wants to, 'tape' his TV broadcasts, though it would be courteous to tell the Corporation that he proposes to do so. But it smacks to me of deception for him to pretend to be watching electors and to be talking directly to them, when in fact he is sitting in the studio watching his own performance.
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