1 FEBRUARY 1997, page 25

Deprived By Pc

Sir: Sir Peter Hall is not alone (`Censorship: then and now', 11 January), but at least he managed to get his series off the ground. We have been trying for some time to raise......

Unclaimed Treasure

Sir: I like The Spectator and usually like Petronella Wyatt. However, I bridled a lit- tle when I read the item in her Diary (25 January) about the von Trapp daughters, five of......

Letters Telling The Truth

Sir: In your leader of 25 January, you repeated a number of inaccurate and out- dated assertions concerning the Referen- dum Party first reported by the London Evening Standard......

Fur's Not On

Sir: Knowing nothing about this creature called Petronella Wyatt — sounds vaguely similar to that other animal Cruella De Vil — I feel compelled to put pen to paper in response......

Critic Criticised

Sir: It's ironic to have my Lawrence Durrell biography attacked for inaccuracy by an ex- Oxford professor of poetry who makes so many errors of his own in the space of so short......