Consign The BBC To The Scrapheap of History?
From the Telegraph…. Did BBC help win Labour the 1964 election by cancelling Steptoe and Son? When Harold Wilson learned that the BBC planned to broadcast an episode of Steptoe and Son on the night of the 1964 general election, he sensed disaster. The Labour leader feared that working class voters would stay at home to watch the comedy, which in those days drew audiences of 26 million, … Continue reading