View ers ' Ire D espite the BBC ' s warning to viewers that the
dish they were begun offered was strong meat, the play ' (I read) had hardly. the before protests reached the BBC in such numbers that Lee lines were jammed. They protested long after the play was Over.' They almost' jammed the switchboard of the news- paper which reported the incidence of these cris de coeur, and those who couldn't wait sent telegrams.' The episode seems me regrettable and rather eerie. Leaving out the question °I whether it is either the duty or the privilege of a citizen to register, because he is shocked or frightened, an immediate, unconsidered protest against one item in a programme of entertainment which he is under no obligation to witness and for which he pays the promoters just over a shilling a week, British come to the actual form and purpose of the protest. The "dtIsh are supposed to be a fairly effective and sensible race. ;eat on earth do they say on these, occasions ? What on 4rth do they expect to happen as a result of what they say o doubt they are sincere; I suspect that they are self- ...`",Portat; but there is only one epithet which describes their tedetions to 1984,' and that is Orwellesque.
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