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What tortures a P. H. Newby hero goes through! In real life Newby is the gentlemanly chief of the BBC's gentlemanly Third Programme; in his fiction he is committed to the notion that a novelist's job is to beat the truth out of his characters. With an author like him, a novel has no need of villains...
Relations between the BBC and No. 10 Downing Street could hardly have been characterized as cordial in recent years. But last week there were signs of a thaw between the Harold Wilsons and "Auntie." First, the PM was featured in a friendly BBC radio interview in which he reminisced about his 25 years in politics. Next day, Mary Wilson was on a program which centers around what to save in case of shipwreck. Each celebrated castaway is allowed one book, eight records and one luxury. Mary Wilson's book: Wuthering Heights. Her records: selections ranging from Faust to English...
Sugar Buns. Shortly after the last of his three broadcasts, the BBC issued a public apology for Dimbleby's "unfortunate and inappropriate" performance and launched "an inquiry into all the circumstances." Dimbleby seemed unperturbed. He said that he had deliberately set out "to get behind the platitudinous surface and pick up the more truthful reality. If the Queen opens Parliament, all right, that's straight ceremony. But when President and Prime Minister meet, it's arrant nonsense that it be treated with deference...
David learned his undeferential ways first as editor of Isis, the student magazine at Oxford, then as an interviewer for the BBC in the provinces. Sometimes he would carry two microphones to cover for radio and telly simultaneously-and to increase his fee to $22 per assignment. He later worked on network-wide documentaries and panel shows in London and spent a year as a CBS correspondent. His credits include a film report from Albania and an uneven essay on the "vulgarity" of Texas. In a preview of the sort of sharp commentary he delivered last week, he described Texas...
Dimbleby was hardly abashed by the official apology. What BBC management thought was a bad show was cheered last week as bang-on by the London TV critics. Wrote the Daily Mail: "It's very possible that David Dimbleby judged the mood of the nation toward the Nixon visit as accurately as his father judged its mood toward the visits of Eisenhower and Kennedy. Don't let them throw you, David. It's better to be ahead of your time than behind...