6 FEBRUARY 1959, Page 8

HAVE SAID some harsh things here in my time about

commercial television, and 1 expect I shall say them again—or things of the same sort. So it is pleasant to be able to congratulate the Granada organisation which, and not for the first time, is showing a sound sense of obliga- tion. With the British Association, it is sponsor- ing a series of 'Granada Lectures,' on communi- cation in the modern world: the first three are to be given in London in October by Sir Edward Appleton, Ed Murrow and Sir Eric Ashby. Not should I confine my congratulations to the spon- sors of the lectures: the British Association, too, as organisers of the lectures, are giving a lead to other august institutions in this collaboration with the most powerful of the mass Media.

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