television has • well-established pattern. each episode the police catch the criminals, writes PIERRE KIPNIS Allhough the Sweeney, for physical exercise more than Dixon ever do. wo can Do sure that ms methods of detection apprehension Still confirmation of the criminals' guilt even prior to any judicial. process.
The four part film play Law - On Thursdays on BBC-2 at 9.30pm, beginning 6 opposes the view that the mechanics of law enforcethe comforting thought that LIC CHIARASICIA away:
DRUDGERY Produced by Tony Garnett, picture of conventional British SOCIALIST CHALLENGE, 6 April 1978 page 15 component viewpoints: those of the police, the criminal. the In lawyers, and the prisoner as they each go about their daily lives, with all the drudgery and tedium entailed.
REALISM As with the reccarly banned and play Seum about life inside a Borstal, the scripta for Law and Order were extensively rescarched and are the core of the play's realism.
Because of the scope of tbe task, the Lime scale of the lour plays has occasionally CULE COU CAMBBICCIU the first episode a detective UNIRCLUE £3000 worth of bribes in put matter of days, rather than the month is might ordinarily lake. But Tis is a lot moe dramatie licence cop story, and the director, Les understates its case.
In cach episode, we presented views of the characters: how tocy sce and deal. with each other; and how we see them. ERE VICICT usual identification of goodies LIESELICA.
JUDICIAL been In the villain's cale the myth of honour among thieves receiving exploded, acting as a spring board to the third play where the Tension expoctation that the system — in the face of gaping compared holes in the prosecution case — will right wrongs. The issue is undecided play, which is have been bassodby Wenham, could be banned. are costlicting "FUCK' explicit cannat make l that Tuck' in Britain.
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