This chapter focuses on the role of the Crawford Committee in the initial efforts to create a charter for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). It explains that prior to the start of the committee's work in November 1925, Sir Evelyn Murray presented them with a memorandum on broadcasting. Murray upheld J.C.W. Reith's call for unified control and proposed that the best way to manage broadcasting companies was by setting up a corporation with a widely representative governing body. The committee also sided with Reith's opinion that constitutional change should be associated with executive...

This chapter focuses on the role of the Crawford Committee in the initial efforts to create a charter for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). It explains that prior to the start of the committee's work in November 1925, Sir Evelyn Murray presented them with a memorandum on broadcasting. Murray upheld J.C.W. Reith's call for unified control and proposed that the best way to manage broadcasting companies was by setting up a corporation with a widely representative governing body. The committee also sided with Reith's opinion that constitutional change should be associated with executive continuity.