10 FEBRUARY 1967, Page 15

SIR,—You say in your 'Notebook' (February 3) that you are

getting worried about the BBC's sound bulletins. You arc not alone in your anxiety. The six o'clock bulletin, which I once regarded as essen- tial listening, is now no more than a very inadequate summary. The developments of the day are dis- missed in a line or two, and in disgust I have given up listening to it.

Why should we have to wait until eleven o'clock on the Third Programme for the only news bulletin of the day of fifteen minutes? Surely radio shduld be catering better for those people repelled by the superficiality of television news.