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...things fall apart. Which is just what they do in this engaging novel set in the offices of a large London daily. No one on the staff has more than a passing concern for the interests of the paper. One staffer spends the day turning out scripts for the BBC; another writes syllabuses for grammar school courses; John Dyson, a department head, yearns to establish himself as a television panelist. Frayn's greatest comic invention is to take a horde of thirsty European journalists on a boondoggling press junket to the Near East. At each unlikely way station toward...
...work is to spot schools of fish. Fuenzalida had no hesitation about taking the job, even though the Chilean air force forbids its pilots to fly south of the cape for fear of violent winds. Despite the danger of overloading his Piper Apache, Fuenzalida squeezed in two extra passengers, BBC Reporter Clifford Luton and BBC Cameraman Peter Beggin...
High-Voltage Drama. Coming as it does from the No. 1 man in British television, that succinct comment largely explains why it is that BBC is so consistently sprightly and compelling. No American TV executive would think such a dread thing, let alone say it. Where U.S. television programming is mostly perma-pressed, sanitized and deodorized, BBC says what it thinks, encourages controversy, and, as Sir Hugh says, does not in the least mind getting people's goats...
Only in the matter of color does the BBC lag behind the U.S. Colorcasting will begin on a small scale on one of the BBC channels this fall, but it will take another three years or so before British color programming will rival America's. Apart from that, the BBC, with its emphasis on performance rather than sales, can teach its old colonies a thing...
...terms with men. Jacqueline Du Pré is big enough, both musically and physically (5 ft. 9 in., 150 Ibs.), perhaps because she literally grew up with a cello. The daughter of an English business executive, she was four years old when she heard the instrument played on a BBC broadcast in London. "All I remember," she says, "is that it had a nice sound. So I asked Mother for a cello...