FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

MAY 8, 1935

Sir Kingsley Wood, Postmaster-General, stated in Parliament yesterday that he had set up a committee to consider broadcasting services in this country. He said the question of excluding all politics from BBC programmes would doubtless be among the subjects to be considered.

MAY 8, 1979

MANUEL, the bemused waiter from TV’s Fawlty Towers, has been accused of giving the show racist overtones. The trouble came at the Montreux television festival, where the show is the BBC’s official entry in the Golden rose contest. As one Swiss said: ‘Funny foreigners may be a joke to the English. But not to us. Manuel is a character in dubious taste.’