ABSTRACT
It escapes the treatment which flattens so many other comparable interests because, I suppose, it is regarded as specialised (though it is put on at a quite general time: Sunday for the Country and other reverent detachments) and in any case metropolitan interviewers would be frightened of it. Last week's programme about farming steep land was a model of interest and intelligence, with the regular interviewers, farmers themselves, talking to other farmers and letting the camera see the ground. Where professionals and presentation are really needed, this is surely the right way to do it. The point would then be that, serious and pleasant as these men are, we would not want to see them, over the next seven days, looking over their cues at Vietnam, the universities, an air-crash, a strike, Rhodesia, car-sales, a prison escape, cheese imports, a philosopher, Czechoslovakia, suicides.
