1 MAY 1964, Page 18

CHANNEL TWO

SIR,—Well, I'm sorry Christopher Booker wasn't feeling well. If he had been, he might have noticed that during the pullover programme, my colleagues in the background were hard at it both gathering news and feeding it to me. (I only wish it had all been prepared in advance.) But news doesn't stop coming just because you're on the air—which is why they were still at work during the jacket show later on. What's that, Mr. Booker? You hadn't checked on whether there was a later show? Or noticed that we don't use 'newsreaders.' in the tradi- tional sense, at all? Well. . . .

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