If he would be only, you know, a puppet who would be repeating somebody else's views, people will sense it immediately. We had considerable freedom. I was responsible for acting within the very broad framework of the political guidances which I accepted, they were discussed with me. But then I had the freedom to construct the programme in a manner was best attuned to the traditions, character, mentality and interest of my audience, of the Polish audience. Yes, well, of course we did have cultural problems, but we did try to do it in a way that would again project conflicting views, conflicting assessment, because this is the way to project freedom, you know.
Freedom is a variety of views.
The tyranny is just one view, but we had round table discussions of the prominent Polish writers and poets. Many prominent writers, poets and journalists were in the West, all over the world, and they were all had the voice and the place in our programmes, whatever their views, provided they were democratic views. And we were trying also to publicise writers and cultural activities in Poland, which displayed some independence. And by for instance, we had one on a New Year, we had a round table discussion of the Polish writers who were offering a prize to the best Polish novel or the best Polish poetry and people in Poland were extremely anxious to get the prize. And it was done in a discussion, so there was not just one prize.