16 SEPTEMBER 1949, Page 14

Hoppers Also, as I spent some days in a Kent

village, I took a local enter- tainment in Hoppers' Holiday, where Londoners piped up briskly to the microphone from the hop-fields. This was in Hallo Children I which continues to be one of thi B.B.C.'s best 1949 inventions. If this visit to the hop-pickers had been related on a more adult pro- gramme, I should have resented very much the omission of a profoundly significant social fact, discovered personally. In hop- picking time the village publicans, wary from experience, charge a deposit of sixpence on every glass handed across the bar.

LIONEL HALE.