“Gallery” lively but courteous

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32879, 30 March 1972, Page 4

“Gallery” lively but courteous

Quite the most interesting item in a very thin Tuesday night’s television was the “Gallery” meeting of the Prime Minister and Mr Kirk to discuss the Government’s new stabilisation measures.

the people to look at their | political leaders in action, at | close range. David Exel was very much at home on this occasion, managing affairs well, and not too obtrusively. There were two other main items after the news and “The South Tonight.” Marius Goring and “The Expert” did not hold the attention as much as in the previous programme in the series. The story of the deaths of two Indian children in England was a tragic one, but there was very little in the way of deduction from the good doctor. It was simply a recital of an unfortunate set of circumstances and as a story in detection was without substance.

It was a little like a chess match between two familiar but friendly rivals at the club, with David Exel the time-keeper, and the public left to adjudicate on another adjourned game. But it had a substance and interest quite lacking in the other fare offered. It was animated discussion but conducted almost al! the time in good humour, and with courtesy, which is as it should be. Nothing new came from the debate, and inevitably attempts were made directly to influence voters, but it was another interesting opportunity for

There was, however, a moving performance from Zena Moiyeddin—if we have the name right—as the young Indian mother and a good

one from Usha Joshi as the father. “Bracken’s World” ends inext Tuesday and this viewer, [for one, will not be overicome with regret about that. I The series was better than the previous one under this title. But this week’s tale was trivial in the extreme — the mature Laura Deane becoming emotionally involved (as so many people do with so many in “Bracken’s World”) with a young singer who had acting amb£ tions. It was empty, weak and pointless, and played without conviction by the two principals.—PANDOßA.