21 OCTOBER 1949, Page 14

London, Europe, Asia For stray pickings. . . . It

was an entertaining idea for the B.B.C. to send out its 1st XI of commentators to explore London at 5 a.m., to investigate the markets and the Admiralty wireless room and the Underground and a bakery, to record their impressions and present them that evening in While London Sleeps. More please ; but next time don't let us have the recorded voice of Mr. More, Vaughan Thomas on the Home Programme simultaneously with his visible presence on Television, doing something quite different. . • • An excellent feature, with the bad title of The Forgotten Elite, about Europe's refugees in exile. . . . An admirable Third Programme series on South-Eastern Asia, inaugurated by a talk (by Mr. A. D. C

Peterson) of great veracity and vivacity. LIONEL HALE.