§ 95. Mr. Donnellyasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what was the nature of the Russian representations his Department passed to the British Broadcasting Corporation regarding the showing of the television programme depicting the trial of the Russian writers Sinyaysky and Daniel.
§ Mr. William RodgersThe Soviet authorities asked the Foreign Office in April of this year to indicate to the British Broadcasting Corporation Soviet concern at reports that a play depicting the trial of Sinyaysky and Daniel was to be shown on television. As my right hon. Friend the Postmaster-General told my hon. Friend on 13th July, the message was passed on to the British Broadcasting Corporation without comment of any kind.—[Vol. 750, c. 997–8.]