Low farce
Sir: Your television critic says that in the Did You See? discussion that followed the showing of Brimstone and Treacle, Mr Alasdair Milne popped up for a few moments tut made no serious contribu- tion at all, since he didn't pop up and wasn't there. Next your critic claims that I "peered short-sightedly' at the panel, obviously unaware that the word 'short- sighted' means the opposite of what he thinks it does, i.e. an ability to see at close range. Finally he describes one of my guests as `wishy', a word that is not in any dictionary of mine nor, I fancy, of his.
Your critic says he found the discussion `a scene of farce hard to parallel'. Not nearly so farcical, if I may say so, as your critic's review of it. The most charitable explanation is that he was tight at the time he wrote it.
Ludovic Kennedy
Ashdown House, Avebury, Marlborough, Wiltshire
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