Joint letter from Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain, David Lloyd George and WSC to John Whitley [chairman of the BBC] criticising the BBC's exclusion of any speakers not nominated by the Party Leaders or Whips from a series of political broadcasts planned for the autumn, as a new form of discrimination, foreign to the spirit of Parliamentary practice. The letter states that such discrimination if applied in Parliament would reduce debates to "regimentations of machine-controlled opinion" and would deny expression of independent views. It further says that the Postmaster-General [Sir Kingsley Wood] had assured Parliament that year that individuals not attached to any particular party would be allowed to speak if they had any useful contribution to make, so allowing a few extra speakers to the lists chosen by the Whips should be in harmony with the Government's wishes. Finally, Chamberlain, Lloyd George and WSC, as senior Privy Councillors, ask Whitley to consider the matter and to add some independent speakers to the series. Carbon typescript copy. 2 pages, misfiled apart.