ABSTRACT
As an idea for a book, this comes across initially as a bit strained. Between 1968 and 1972 Williams wrote a monthly TV column for the Listener. The purpose of this volume is to reprint them, together with a few other previously published pieces on the medium. Two potential problems then arise. First of all, the familiar one of how convincingly items of occasional, and inevitably often rather hurried, journalism stand up to their generic transformation into a sequence of essays. Secondly, the sheer irrecoverability of so much of the material which is talked about, especially to a reader lacking viewing memories from the period in question.
