Get Ahead
Introduction '''''Get Ahead''''' is a BBC Television programme that ran from 1958 to 1962 and offered a prize of £5,000 () 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'' as a form of indirect advertising to skirt the Television Act 1954.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 and the British offshoot of Monsanto, the American chemical company at the time.
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