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[British BBC Television series (1958–1962)] [italic title] [date=April 2023]
[date=June 2017] _GET AHEAD_ is a BBC Television programme that ran from 1958
to 1962 and offered a prize of £5,000 ([UK]) to a contestant's idea for an
entrepreneurial project for a profitable business. It was an early forerunner
of programmes such as _Dragons' Den_ on BBC Two.
The programme was sponsored by the _News Chronicle_[1] as a form of indirect
advertising to skirt the Television Act 1954.[2]
The programme was presented by Kenneth Horne and Peter West. A panel of
senior business experts judged the merit of the award and included Sir Miles
Thomas, who had been chairman of BOAC[3] and the British offshoot of Monsanto,
the American chemical company at the time.
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