Abstract
In May the Writers and Scholars Educational Trust will see published its most ambitious project to date, a study of the relationship between the TV organisations of six West European countries and governments. Edited by Anthony Smith, who also wrote the chapter on Great Britain, the book contains five other contributions by leading communications experts in the countries concerned. It is being published by the London publisher, Macmillan and in the USA by St Martin's Press. Below we print excerpts from the six chapters.