10 AUGUST 1951, Page 18

Talk Yourself Out of This lit,--It is flatterin g even to

be mentioned at all in Marginal Comment ; ut disappointing to find that cne's voice is as unfamiliar on the wireless to Mr. Nicolson as his own voice is to him when he hears it " played back." Mr. Nicolson did not enjoy " Can You Beat It," a programme with which I bad nothing whatever to do. " Talk Yourself Out of This " made its first appearance this year on Thursday, August 2nd—at a time when, I am quite sure, the Spectator of August 3rd was already on its way to its readers. I am sure that Mr. Nicolson will find some way of talking himself out of this.—Yours sincerely, GILBERT HARDING.

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