ABSTRACT
But these, for many reasons, can be very difficult to see: above all, because we aren't used to them. For example, last Friday on BBC-2 I watched a series of programmes from about eight until past 11. At various times that evening there were four solo pieces for which we don't quite have a name: Peter Cook in a parody of Rod McKuen and his dog, Alan Bennett in a fairly conclusive parody of Kenneth Clark's reminiscences of Bernard Berenson, OJ. William Rushton announcing a brave mock-expedition to get away from a British mood which he described with great accuracy, Bernard Braden performing Mark Twain on Fenimore Cooper. In between these pieces, there were three short films of India, Georgia Brown singing Brecht, the News and an episode of Jude the Obscure.
