Mental institutions had a dubious reputation in Eastern Europe, especially in the USSR, where political dissidents were routinely consigned. Not surprisingly, psychiatry and mental patients attracted a lot of interest in Polish literature. "Insanity' by Jerzy Krzyszton is one of the best known insights into the mind of a person suffering mental problems. In this programme we profile the artist whose other themes included his childhood in Russia, where his family was deported by Stalin, his wartime exteriences in India and Uganda, where he found himself as a refugee, and his many encounters with English culture.