Miss Mitford makes the unassailable point that, to the extent that prisons are

intended to rehabilitate their inmates, they are miserable failures, and other means of dealing with criminals should be found. From the perspective of many viewers, however, she muddies her point by her overarching critique of Western institutions of power: "All right, we've got the Rice Krispie man [a hypothetical fraudulent advertiser], who is really a rather minor criminal compared, in my view at least, to the manufacturer of napalm and other genocidal weapons or to the policemen who routinely commit crimes on the beat." Frequent digressions make this show delightful and frustrating by turns.