16 SEPTEMBER 1949, page 14

Radio

THE five programmes with which the B.B.C. is telling the story of the war seem to me to have been excellently designed ; and—to judge from the first two—are being carried out......

Matters Of Opinion The Week Before, We Had Prelude To

War, as the inaugural pro- gramme of the series ; and here was a harder job. War is a com- paratively simple matter ; diplomacy is tortuous—a matter of shades, doubts,......

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......

Controversy Revived I Have Much Enjoyed The D. H. Lawrence

series on the Third Programme, if perhaps for the wrong reasons. It was agreeable, I mean, to be reminded by Mr. Stephen Potter's The D. H. Lawrence Myths of all that hubbub and......

Music

IT has been a week of anniversary celebrations. The tercentenary of John Blow's birth was fittingly commemorated by the London Opera Club at Hampton Court with a performance of......

The Pattern Of The War This Week We Had A

revised version of Mr. Chester Wilmot's Battle for Britain, first heard in 1947, but now freshened and made more exact by more recently published documents. The facts of the......