4 APRIL 1987, Page 26

Sir: Ironical that the issue of the Spectator containing Charles

Glass's account of the attacks on Index on Censorship for pub- lishing Noam Chomsky (`Senseless cen- sors', 21 March) should follow that in which Paul Johnson, in his habitual less than temperate fashion, castigated Chan- nel 4 for proposing to broadcast a discus- sion on the rights and wrongs of suppres- sing the play Perdition (The press, 14 March).

Jeremy Isaacs

Chief executive, Channel 4 Television, 60 Charlotte Street, London W1