Synopsis
Live edition on the night that Her Majesty the Queen asked Alec Douglas-Home to be Prime Minister, following Harold Macmillan's sudden resignation due to ill health.
- Programme: Panorama
- Series: 1963
- Episode: Special: The Premiership
- Channel: BBC
- Broadcast year: 1963
- History
Licence: ERA Licence required
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