Listened With Mother

Sir: As I expect your readers are aware, Radio 5 is to become a 'rolling sports and news' channel, and children's programmes are to be moreorless abandoned (a spokesman told me......

Letters Hamlet's Black Hole

Sir: At the close of his article (The trick of that voice', 30 October) Mr J. Enoch Pow- ell asks, 'What happened to create the black hole between Hamlet (printed in quarto in......

Hammered

Sir: In my zeal to nail Gore Vidal's etymo- logical pretensions (Books, 9 October), I now realise that I struck myself on the thumb in one regard: as Patrick Leigh Fer- mor......

Boys Next Door

Sir: Poor Alan Watkins (Diary, 9 October) must have suffered an unusually flaccid or frustrated time at Cambridge in the carly Fifties: 'accounted a sexual triumph if a girl......

Editorial Crumpet

Sir: Book jackets and, sometimes, press articles will illustrate their authors; for some odd reason we find it interesting, if not helpful, to associate a portrait with its......

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