The British Broadcasting Corp. does not enjoy a reputation for daring. But the BBC has done some things that would scare the antennae off U.S. radio. Its latest deed of derring-do is the "Third Program" (TIME, Nov. 4), which broadcasts "the greatest works" of music, drama, poetry, and the best obtainable literary and scientific addresses "with no concession whatever to mass taste."
After nine months of steady bombardment by BBC's Third, how many Britons had been hit? Last week, TIME'S London Bureau reported:
"After some youthful statistical fidgets, the Third Program's audience has settled at about 900,000 a night. That's not a patch...
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