The ways of the BBC, are truly hard. In the programme arranged for Christmas, 'M. Boulestin, the noted authority on wines and cookery, was to be (clevised, standing at a bar covered with bolties of every kind of wine, while giving a talk on the cor: reet wine to take with each course and why, The talk of course would be audible far beyond thy range of he television All the temperance organizations of England, Ireland and Scotland, the Baptist Union and the National 'Free Chiureh are protesting against this en~ eouragemhent to drink. They also Produce the harve that comedians engoued by the BBC. are subsidized by' the brewers to make jokes about beer,
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