Details

Subject(s)

• Diplomatic and consular service [Browse]
• Foreign relations [Browse]
• Politics and government [Browse]
• Great Britain—Foreign relations—1906-1966—Sources [Browse]
• Czechoslovakia [Browse]

Related name

• Great Britain. Foreign Office [Browse]
• Coherent Digital (Firm) [Browse]

Series

• General Correspondence from 1906-1966 (Great Britain. Foreign Office. Political Departments) ; FO371-188595. [More in this series]
• Cold War Eastern Europe. [More in this series]
• FO371: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966 ; FO371-188595

Data source

• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1947-1982
• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1961-1966: Module 2
• History Commons

Summary note

A file of correspondence and press material concerning broadcasting in Czechoslovakia. The documents discuss the Czechoslovak government's introduction of a new television programme in which leading Czechoslovak politicians were asked questions telephoned to them by members of the public -- and the "dismal end" to which the programme came, as the politicians in question were "quite inexperienced in this kind of technique". The documents also cover the airing of a new television programme in which three Czechoslovak politicians were interviewed by representatives from leading Czech and Slovak newspapers -- and the British observation that several of the more pertinent questions asked during the programme were left unanswered by the politicians, which "defeated the whole object of the programme". Other documents in the file include a report summarising this television programme -- and the transcript of a talk given on the B.B.C. World Service criticising the Czechoslovak regime.

Notes

• Title from Cold War Eastern Europe Module II.
• File date: 1966.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 1996.

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