THE TROUBLED AIR
SIR,—There seems to be one section of the community which has not suffered from the BBC's sound barrier. On Thursday of last week I was billed in the Radio Times to pre- side over a discussion, which might have been expected to produce a certain amount of criti- cism of the behaviour of Communist China. At the last moment the time allotted was trans- ferred to a party political broadcast and the discussion postponed.
Nevertheless I received yesterday morning a letter purporting to come from a listener, stigmatising the broadcast over which I had apparently presided as 'dreary,' reminding me that the Chinese were civilised when we were rooting for acorns, and recommending brain- washing for all generals, headmasters and novelists.
The party has, I believe, a faithful roster of people whose duty it is to write to the press and to those who take part in public discus- sions. It appears that their monitoring section, on the other hand, is under-staffed.—Yours faithfully, A. D. C. PETERSON
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