... Land of My Dreams BBC, February 8. HERE was a production that was big in every way--big imotions, big performances, big lets--and the results justified the size of everything. Michael Hordern is beginning to make something of a corner in paranoiac eccentries, and I've rarely ;een him in better form. Every erky gesture, every twitch, every lelf-deluding little laugh, brought he man more ...

... Anglia and Mr Lewis hit the right note of suspense REVIEWS MONEY WITH MENACES Anglia, December 20 A VARIATION on the blackmail plot-- Money with Menaces ably presented a rather strange, sometimes intriguing story about tough newspaper tycoon Andrew Carruthers whom for once in his life, one assumes, was made to eat humble pie, by an associa tion from his past. The twist at the end served a ...

... THE PHYSICISTS BBC, December 21 THIS is a disquieting play. After an Arsenic and Old Lace beginning it ended by chilling my blood. I didn't manage to see this play when it was in the West End. so, having seen it once only. I wouldn't dream of try ing to give a snap analysis of its meaning. If a simple quota- lion can give a clue, the line with most meaning for me was What was once thought can ...

... DEAD DARLING ATV, December 22 IF we hadn't been told that Dead Darling was specially written by Jacque Gillies for Drama 63, I would have thought it was adapted from a successful play--early Emlyn Williams vintage--brought up to date. It was a good old fashioned thriller. And none the worse for that. I've always had a weakness for stories about beautiful girls who are threatened by some ...

... OUR MAN AT ST. MARK'S A-R October 16 WITH all those tender toes just waiting to be stepped on, it's no wonder that Our Man at St. Mark's tiptoes about in stockinged feet. It is significant that the most controversial point to be discussed so far has been the Phillips tache a subject that can be happily argued over by all denominations without fear of leading to religious schisms. This ...

... The Saint A TV, March 8. THE television Templar is a headmaster's idea of the ideal head boy. I was introduced to him on Sunday and am not distressed at having missed him till then. The series slots into a formula which I find tedious. Mr. Templar, like Mr. Harry Lime for the opposition, dis plays every emotion from whimsical charm to slightly irritated whimsical charm before tying a neat bow ...

... The Primitives ATV. Julv 12 BEFORE the play came on our screens, the announcer warned us that our blood would be chilled. I sat down with pleasant anticipation. Five minutes after it started. Victor Piatt cast dark, sullen and ominous looks at Lana Morris and Donald Houston, the new arrivals in the Cornwall village. There was no indication why he did this, but is was a good start. A auarter ...

... RED SKY IN THE MORNING Southern, December 12 THE opening minutes of Red Sky in the Morning were bedevilled by a breakdown and this may have made me miss some important lead that would have given more point to the rest of the play. It was all chat and no action, involving a model who, after being jilted by a titled young man in favour of a rich girl, rebounds into the arms of the workers as ...

... A LOCAL BOY BBC. December 15 I DID not like The Strain, and thought the praise lavished on it ridiculous (I would like to know what Mr. Alun Owen really thought of it), and I did not like this play. If there was an opportunity for Mr. Owen to introduce some savage poetry this was it, but the return by the author to the land of his fahers was, to me, a sham and incon clusive. The dialogue ...

... THE TEACHERS ATV, December 16 ONE wonders mildly whether any actual teaching was ever done in this particular secondary modern school that came under fire in ATV's networked production by H. M. Tennent. After a classroom was utterly wrecked and the walls and furniture smudged with suggestive vulgar isms, W. M. Target's The Teachers delved into peoples' private lives to find out the real ...

... ITA hosts to EBU working party THE Independent Television Authority and the Independent Television Companies' Association are acting as joint hosts to a meeting of the European Broadcasting Union Working Party on International Television lays, being held in London from 29th January to 2nd February, 1962. The Working Party, under the Chairmanship of Mr. Martin Pulling, C.B.E., Assist ant ...

... THE BBC's new television and VHF sound broad casting station which has been built at Four I^nes near Red ruth, Cornwall, will be brought into service on Monday, 26th February. There will be daily test trans missions throughout normal programme hours starting on Monday, February 12. These are for engineering purposes. This new station is one of several that the B.B.C. is build ing to extend the ...