The Law, But no Profit Scotland Yard, the new series
of six programmes about the police that began last week, made a poor start. After a ponderous intro- duction by the Commissioner of Police, which seemed designed 10 recruit men for the force rather than to attract listeners to their sets, the programme went off into a fictional murder case which fell very flat. I looked for much more actuality than I found, and began to suspect that the whole business had been misconceived.
For variety, it was more than pleasant to have Mr. Eric Barker back in Variety Fanfare, but may I implore this talented clown to drop his habit of commenting on the success or failure of his jokes ? It is, in general, bad art to destroy your comic illusions: and, in particular, it is bad broadcasting to concentrate on the studic audience. May I also here hand the booby prize of the week to the " planning " that allowed Mr. Edwin Styles to be performing simul- taneously on Monday night (on recorded programmes) both on the Home (Variety Comes to Town) and the Light (Our Mr. Meredith)? I exclaimed with Orsino: " How hast thou made division of
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