‘TO ALMIGHTY GOD This shrine of the arts music and literature is dedicated by the first Governors in the year of our Lord 1931 John Reith being Director General. It is their prayer that good seed sown will produce a good harvest
that everything offensive to decency and hostile to peace will be expelled and that the nation will incline its ear to those things which are lovely pure and of good report and thus pursue the path of wisdom and virtue’.'We feel that Sunday is observed in this country of ours as a special day, and for broadcasting not to regard this would distress a very large section of the British public.'
That statement was made when Sir John Reith was the Director General of the BBC.
Lord Reith was a Christian man, and his influence in the BBC meant that Sunday was respected and the standard of programmes was relatively high.
The change began in 1940, when Sunday programmes were changed owing to alleged wartime demands for sport; it
then soon escalated and broadened out into other areas.
In 1952, Sir William Haley, the Director General at that time, said, 'Strict rules have now been abandoned.'
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