Television satire

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)

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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