17 OCTOBER 1981, page 16

The Harmless Lunatic

Donald Gould In the popular mind (and perhaps, also, in the minds of a good many sophisticates like MPs, barristers, and judges) the 'patients' confined in our grim psychiatric......

Broadcasting

Begging bowl Paul Johnson The last time the BBC got a rise was in November 1979, when Willie Whitelaw very generously gave the Corporation a licence fee of £34, without......