27 OCTOBER 1961, page 24

Homage To Reith

The Birth of Broadcasting. By Asa Briggs. (O.U.P., 42s.) ACCORDING to Professor Briggs himself, the huge history of broadcasting in the United King- dom of which this is the......

People In Places

Potbank, By Mervyn Jones. (Seeker and Warburg, 12s. 6d.) The East-Enders. By Ashley Smith. (Seeker and Warburg, 12s. 6d.) WRITING about places, like other kinds of writ- ing, is......