Whodunnit
Sir: Your drama critic Giles Gordon (27 August) suggests the anonymous author of the Elizabethan drama Arden of Faversham (being presented by the RSC at the Pit until October)......
Stubble Burning
Sir: It ill behoves Tom Thatcher, whom I take to be a Salisbury Plain grain farmer, to address arrogantly the general public on the advantages (to the farmer) of stubble......
Sir: I Was Dismayed To Switch On My Telly Black
and white, of course — the other day to see two Al crashers holding forth. One was an Irish pyschiatrist and the other your television critic. After ten minutes or so 1 gave up......
Sir: I Don't Mind Being Told I Am Wrong But
1 become edgy when I am misquoted. The appropriately named Mr Thatcher says that 1 complained about straw-burning. I didn't. I said the landscape looked as though the Vikings......
An Affront To Decency
Sir: Whether the editor of the Literary Review is an anti-Semite, and certainly whether its proprietor is a gentleman (Notebook, 17 September), is of limited relevance to the......
Letters
Savimbi's negritude Sir: Fred Bridgland (`Russia's Vietnam', 17 S eptember) is right to ask for a new assess- ment of Angola, but I wonder if he is the best person to give it?......
01' Blue Eyes
Sir: Watching Richard Ingrams in conversation with Dr Clare, I fell madly in love with Richard's perfect English-type male beauty, blue eyes, fair hair worn like Richmal......
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