Editing Protect and Survive (section)

===Wartime Broadcasting Service===
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During the early 1970s, the BBC and the Home Office produced a radio script advising the public of what to do in the event of nuclear attack. This was eventually published in October 2008 on the BBC's website,<ref name="tbuBBCwake">{{cite web|title= BBC transcript to be used in wake of nuclear attack |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/03_10_08nuclearattack.pdf |publisher =BBC News |access-date=30 June 2011 }}</ref> with the full correspondence made available to the public via The National Archives.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2008/october/wartime.htm?homepage=news |title=The National Archives |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=30 June 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110102170725/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2008/october/wartime.htm?homepage=news |archive-date=2 January 2011 }}</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7648042.stm BBC nuclear bomb script released]. Comedian [[Harry Shearer]] reads it in the style of [[Walter Cronkite]]</ref> The script used very similar language and style to the later ''Protect and Survive'' series. In particular, it emphasised the need for citizens to remain in their homes,<ref name="tbuBBCwake"/> and not to try to evacuate elsewhere.

During the exchange of correspondence between the BBC and various government departments, several letters seem to suggest that a booklet for public consumption was already being discussed. In a letter<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7960825 |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20081023221637/http%3A//www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details%2Dresult.asp?Edoc_Id%3D7960825 |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 October 2008 |title=DocumentsOnline &#124; Image Details |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=30 June 2011}}</ref> from the Central Office of Information, dated 12 March 1974, a request for information from The Home Office about a proposed booklet read as follows:<ref name= "ho322">[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=8324802&SearchInit=4&CATREF=HO+322/775 HO 322/775] at The National Archives</ref>

{{blockquote|Meanwhile I should be grateful if you could let me have a copy of your revised advice to the householder. I will assume that this will form the text of the Official Announcement and that what Probert is discussing with your Information Division is the production of a booklet on public advice.}}

This was replied to on 15 March 1974 by the Home Office, clearly stating that such a booklet was being produced, and that they were also targeting the same information at television:<ref name= "ho322"/>

{{blockquote|It seems likely a basic booklet will be produced... we expect rather more attention to be paid to the dissemination of this advice through other media, in particular television.}}