B .B .C. Changes If the forecasts of the findings
of the lUllswater Com- mittee which has been considering the advisability of changes in the B.B.C. charter are to be believed, the Cabinet will have some interesting recommendations to consider. It is said that proposals are made which would subject the general policy of the Corporation to closer Parliamentary supervision, by allowing debates on broadcasting policy to take place at any time, as with other matters of national policy. That is as it hotild be. Parliament should have the right to raise questions, not of administrative detail, but of general policy, when necessity arises. Equally sound is the proposal that the B.B.C. should retain 75 per cent, instead of 50 per cent, of the ,revenue from licences. Empire broadcasting and television development could be financed out of this increase, and more expenditure on regional programmes would give listeners a wider choice, which is often badly needed.
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