The picture of Britain held by people outside this country is less often the Welfare State or the Affluent Society than the home of social protest and concern for the underdog-the country of Dickens, Wilberforce, Shaftesbury, and Elizabeth Fry. The outsider who comes here with this view may be shocked by what he finds.
Piero Ottone for six years Chief London Correspondent of Corriere della Sera, Milan talks to Ludovic Kennedy.