"Public television ought to be an INSTITUTION OF PUBLIC SERVICE and its' governing board ought to be composed of respected people from different branches. Political affiliation should be irrelevent. This kind of public television would be funded partially through the budget and partially through Television taxes. Then we'd be able to talk about social education, mission and culture."

"I once tried to convince Treasury Minister Jacek Socha of this, since he was theoreticaly the owner of public television and could have changed something. He thought I was mentally retarded," says Olga Lipińska in this wide ranging interview. PS: Will we ever see your Cabaret again, or has Jan Dworak's team of executives shut you out of television for good? Olga Lipińska: No one has cut me out for good and I am still hopeful that I will return to television. True, not everyone loved my Cabaret, I had my enemies, but there were also people who quite liked what I was doing. 3 million viewers is quite an audience and any intelligent manager would never resign from such capital. All the more reason why I don't understand why Mr. Dworak, tied as he is to the supposedly tolerant, democratic and intellectual Civic Platform, has decided to get rid of me while at the same time promoting something as embarassing as the Mazur and Zalewski show which peddled such stupid and vulgar tras