6.30 Perspective
5: The Case of Crime Fiction
The Underground Man is published this week. Yet another novel by one of America's best selling crime writers, Ross Mac Donald, goes to join this most popular brand of fiction on the bookshelves. Why is crime fiction so popular? JULIAN SYMONS talks to ROSS MACDONALD about what goes to make a best-seller and discusses the reader's motives with a psychologist and with crime writers.
Producer ROBIN BRIGHTWELL
7.0 Affluence and Inequality
Ten programmes on the problems of the developing world presented by PETER DONALDSON , author of Worlds Apart-5: The Present Development Task Development means more than an increase in GNP: it means the transformation of traditional into modern societies. It implies more than an increase in production: it implies better health, wider opportunities and new patterns of living.
Producer DAVID DICKINSON