 There was a Friday evening news slot which George Orwell, writing at that time in Jura, criticised for its "amateurishness".A number of radio plays were produced, including , a translation by Lachlan MacKinnon of Henrik Ibsen's "The Wild Duck" (1951).Because few areas of the West Highlands and virtually none of the islands could receive television signals before the early 1960s, Gaelic TV was not an issue at first, though there had been coverage of the .