A quote from Lord Reith, first Director General of the BBC. Possibly it's largely irrelevant now given that television has been supplanted by the internet and all its doings but I've been storing it up for a long time and recently bought the image block of the television with the spindly legs, so it has finally had an airing, even though it's likely to be met with complete incomprehension by anyone too young to remember the closedown dot.