Note from Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to the Post Master General on the BBC television satire show “That Was The Week That Was”, December 1962 (PREM 11/3668)
Transcript
Broadcasting (Gen)
Urgent
Admiralty House
Whitehall. S.W.1
Post Master General
I hope you will not repeat not take any action about “That was the week that was” without consulting me.
It is a good thing to be laughed at.
It is better than to be ignored.
HM
10.12.62