15 JULY 1949, Page 14

From China to Peru

Elsewhere recently radio has taken us (for its reporting at any rate must be seasonable) to golf championships, and told us about the Royal Show at Shrewsbury, and continued to survey mankind from China to Peru. When malcontents speak harshly to me of the B.B.C., I have a habit (being contradictory from the cradle) of asking them what in fact the .B.B.C. has missed in its coverage of the immediate contemporary scene. Whereat they leave me, muttering. The fact of the matter is that the B.B.C. neglects very little here