Natural break
Sir: Since Peregrine Worsthorne used most of last week's Notebook to castigate a newspaper article he found 'wholly misleading', it was odd that he should devote his closing paragraph to giving a wholly misleading account of a Panorama programme.
Panorama did not present an interview with the Butcher of Lyons followed without a break by an interview with Mrs Jeane Kirkpatrick. It presented a 24 minute report about Klaus Barbie which included less than three minutes of Barbie himself talk-
ing. There was a clear enough break bet- ween that item and the film about Mrs Kirkpatrick (unless Mr Worsthorne was hoping for a history-making commercial break on the BBC).
For all that, I wouldn't dispute that Mrs Kirkpatrick's reasons for advocating the support of 'moderately repressive' regimes might have seemed more interesting to some in the light of Barbie's exploits in oc- cupied France.
George Carey
Editor, Panorama, BBC, Lime Grove Studios, London W12
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