hich he wants to use for

other things.

Matthew: Do you think though that... that in . . . in a sense television has

killed people's own er...sort of , creativity or their ability

to entertain themselves because if they're bored all they do is just

turn on the television?

Lesley: Yes, I think that is a danger, and I think that. .in fact is what is

happening to a lot of people who use it as their ... their main...um

field of amusement and ... because they don't have other outside

interests and even when people come round they'll leave the television

on and not be, you know, particularly interested in talking to them,

you Know the television will be the main thing in the room.

Matthew: Peter, have you got a television?

Peter: I have, in fact I've got two televisions.

Matthew: Do you watch them a lot?

Peter: Er ... no I...I watch very seldom er ... In fact, I find that I watch

television most when I'm most busy, when I'm working hardest and I

need some sort of passive way of relaxing, something which requires

nothing of me, then I watch television a lot. When I've got more energy

left...um ...in my own private time, in my free time, then I find I do

moredifferent things. I do things like um reading, or going out, or

working on anything . . . my hobbies.

　Matthew: Do you think though that people can live a perfectly happy life if

they haven't got a television?

Peter: Oh yes, I think people who don't have a television or people who

entertainment.don' t watch television can be expected to be more

happy. You canassume I think if they never watch television they are

happier people than the people who watch a lot of television,

because I think that television goes with the kind of life which

leaves you with nothing tospare, nothing left, you have to be given

potted, passive entertainment.

Matthew: Bot in that case you ...you seem as though you're completely

against television, is that true?

Peter: No,it's not. I...I have a television in fact,I have two as I said, but

er I ... I ...I think there's a dilemma, a difficult situation.

Television in itself is very good; a . . . a lot of the information

and a lot of the programmes are very instructive, they introduce you

to things you may never have thought of before or never have heard

about before. But in watching, it makes you very passive; you sit for

hour after hour and you get very receptive and very unquestioning aud

it seems to me the important thing in life is to be active, to . . . to

do things, to think things and to be as creative as possible, and

television prevents this.

2. Children and Television

Housewife: What do I think of television? Um, um, well, um, it keeps the family at home, the kids don't go oot at night so much now, they come straight in from school most of them, they run in and straight, well the television's on when they come in, I watch it myself during the afternoon. Er, well it's company really and, er, well, then the kids come home, they eat their tea, I have no trouble with them eating their tea because they just ...

　

well, they don't even look at what they eat, they just sit down and, erm, they eat it and they like the programmes and, and it keeps them quiet while I' m cooking the tea for their dad when he comes home an hour later and tea is ready when the news is on when he comes in, and, er and the news is on or perhaps the football match or something, er, they have to be quiet then,they're not very interested in that themselves, they like the cartoons and things but, em, yeah, well, I think television's great, er, we get on

much better in the house now, um, well, we've got things to talk abo

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