14 FEBRUARY 1964, Page 11

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All those who appreciate the dry wine of irony will get a rare enjoyment from the flavour of Herbert Kretzmer's letter in this issue. How I agree with him! What impertinence of Mrs. Booker to criticise the TW3 team! There they all were in Madison Square Gardens doing their pathetic best and we ought to be grateful to them: no one should dare to suggest that the programme was a Frost. Only the satirists them- selves could possibly have so little humour as to make such a protest.

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