In particular do I deplore the unfairness of much of
the current criticism of the B.B.C.'s home programme. Obviously that programme could be, and will be, improved. The technical difficulty of providing an alternative pro- gramme without thereby giving directional indications to enemy aircraft may be surmounted. Great variety and more vigour will then be possible. Meanwhile it is only just to realise and to repeat that the engineers of the B.B.C. have had to cope with a problem of the very greatest complexity and one which does not, in the same terms, confront the engineers of France or Germany. They have tackled the problem with rapidity and skill. It is not possible for them to explain to the public the exact reasons why they cannot do this or that. They have to suffer abuse in a silence rendered all the more galling by the fact that they possess, in their own instrument, a vehicle of explanation and self- justification which is second to none.
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