The B.B.C. and it Charter The appointment of a committee
" to consider the constitution, control and finance of the broadcasting service in this country," and its probable future develop- ments is in accordance with expectation, in view of the fact that the British Broadcasting Corporation's charter expires next year. The personnel of the committee is admirable, but it may well be found that its task is less extensive than at first sight appears. There will be little disposition to change the constitution of the B.B.C., which has become familiar as the type of public utility company serviceable for more purposes than has so far been recognized. Nor are fundamental changeS iii control likely. Financial questions of importance will -have to be faced, for the interests of the B.B.C. and the Chancellor of the Exchequer are necessarily to some extent divergent. But the broad fact is that the B.B.C. is a marked success as it is. There is room, no doubt, for definite improvements here and there; and construc- tive and friendly criticism of its programmes is both legitimate and necessary. But for the most part that will concern its governing board rather than the new committee.
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