Dear Paul, I don't think so. Ludovic Kennedy is a well known British broadcaster as well as an outstanding campaigner for civil rights. He has campaigned for years to gain a pardon for James Hanratty who was hanged in Britain in the early 60s on highly insufficient evidence for the M6 murder. Kennedy also argued for another posthumous pardon for Derek Bently who was hanged as an accomplice for the murder of a policeman. He did not fire the actual shot but uttered the infamous words, "Let him have it" which he always maintained meant that the underage killer Craig hand the gun to the police offer he murdered. Since Craig was underage, the British judicial service took its revenge on Bently. This was the suvject of the 80s movie, LET HIM HAVE IT, by the director of THE KRAYS and THE RULING CLASS. On the"Ludovico" imagery, what about looking into critical commentaries on Burgess? Could "Ludovico" be a wordplay complination of "ludus" (sic?) - "play" and the Renaissance figure "Vico" symbolizing humanism's supposed mastery of the universe in terms of the perversion practiced by the fictional British government in the novel? Tony Williams ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]