by Chris Dunkley
Financial Times, 16 May 1979

Brass Tacks has returned with an interesting innovation in public access which combines national television and local radio, but offers as raw material only the same irresponsibly sensational nonsense which we grew to distrust in its previous series.

The BBC should be thoroughly ashamed of the journalism on this programme, and we shall have to keep a very close eye on it.

Chris Dunkley, Financial Times, 16 May 1979