Alexandra Palace
For some time I have been feeling that television was missing its chances in the matter of documentaries ; and it was refreshing to be refuted last Monday by the second of the programmes called Matters of Life and Death. Here the subject, not perhaps at first sight alluring, was diabetes. It was explained by Dr. R. D. Lawrence, of King's College Hospital, one of those rare people who, by sheer force of personality, come fairly bursting out of a television screen into one's drawing-room. The production, admirably designed by Mr. Andrew Miller Jones, used living elucidators, microscope slides, film interviews and laboratory demonstrations of the discovery and manufacture of insulin ; and in general it was a triumphant parade of television's potentialities in the documentary,
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