France Without Tears I thought of this fact—elementary but widely
unrecognised—last week on July 14th, when the B.B.C. devoted an evening to France's national festival. It is the sort of thing we take for granted from Broadcasting House ; but it was, in fact, well-planned, lively, amus- ing, decorative and useful. Mr. Wynford Vaughan Thomas (who is always good) supervised a kind of Cook's Tour of Paris. There was an hour's documentary study, Window on France, with evidence brought back by a mobile recording unit, and a general air of accomplishment about it ; and there was a Cross-Channel Quiz " to find out who knows more about the other's country," a contest between a French and English team, with Professor Denis Brogan giving an excellent performance of knowledge, know-how, knock- about comedy, and je-ne-sais-quoi.
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