The organization is not easy. On the part of the
B.B.C. the talk must be at any hour suitable for the social life of the village ; and the men and the women probably want a different hour. The subject must he simple, interesting, and if possible provocative. At the village end the debate must have a leader and the native reluctance to talk be overcome. As to subjects, regional planning, though the phrase is not a good one, might prove of interest. The countryman feels, not without bitterness, that he is being offensively urbanized by ugly shacks and bungalows built out of all harmony with the sur roundings, by the rush of cars and their attendant advertise- ments and petrol stations. Even the water and sanitary arrangements for the village are complicated by the development that multiplies new " concrete mendacities " tll along the roads, with infinite extension of pipes and wires. It is complained too that neither farm horses nor hunters can move on the roads artificially smoothed for the cars.
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