13 AUGUST 1965, page 13

Arts & Amusements

Box Populi By STUART HOOD pins is a bad time for British television. Partly it can be explained in terms of the season. August is for repeats. It is also for re- scheduling and......

The Man Who Was Shakespeare

SIR,—in Martin Seymour-Smith's review of the latest-published book on Marlowe (Spectator, August 6), he calumniously refers to my book The Murder of the Man Who , Was......

Observermess

SIR,—I t is odd that Mr. Booker should be so con- vinced that the Observer's ship is sinking when it was only a few months ago that he was asking for work on 'that dreadful rag'......