Re-hash There is the new game (" Is This You
? ") of dramatising a street incident of reality and asking listeners to recognise themselves— with a prize if they can prove that they were the parties involved. It seems to be based on the misconception that ordinary people are extraordinary. And Mr. Waldman, with all his old skill, conducts a "Puzzle Corner." And the whole affair, in essence, is hardly anything more than the old programme, Monday Night at Eight. If this isn't being bankrupt of ideas, then by heaven it's at any rate devaluation. It is, of course, most smoothly done. Its very smoothness seems to make it glide over the ear and leave no trace.
Am I wrong in asking for a higher standard in these things ? Does the B.B.C. think that anything with a bit more bite in it will be too much for its very wide circle of listeners ? Isn't it the fact, instead, that its listeners will follow the B.B.C.'s lead if it chooses to give them laughter of a better kind and domesticity that has some relation to their homes ?
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