Pubescent clichés
Sir: Your critic, Alexander Chancellor, praises the only example I saw of David Frost's ITV series Twenty Years On (Tele- vision, 31 August). The programme filled whatever there is of my heart and mind with fear and despair. Here was democracy begging to be despised. Technical expertise was put at the service of dismembering even the most elementary coherence of civilised thought.
It is over two thousand years since the Greek philosophers described how the individual, the family and the state are qualitatively different, yet Mr Frost per- suaded a gathering of 20th-century people, some supposed to be leaders of opinion, to mix all three up in a casserole of pubescent clichés.
The occasion demeaned everyone associated with it, not least, I'm afraid, its viewers.
Mike St Aubyn
55 Evesham Road, London N11
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