15 FEBRUARY 1997, page 22

Zappa The Brave

Sir: Michael Henderson (Arts, 1 February) reveals his prejudices in his dismissal of Frank Zappa's contribution to 20th-century art. More's the pity, as he invokes Zappa in......

War Games

Sir: I entirely agree with Sarah Gainham (Letters, 8 February) that it was yet another astonishing omission of the BBC television series 1914-1918 to fail to summarise the......

Letters Hanratty's Innocence

Sir: In case any Spectator reader takes seri- ously the two pages you devoted to Sir Louis Blom-Cooper's perverse views on the Hanratty case (The unproven guilt', 8 February),......