Travoltamania
Sir: When tuning in to Radios 3 and 4 I sometimes find it difficult to avoid getting the regional version of local radio, Radio Bristol, and the other day I heard a voice say, in the tone of someone making good an inexplicable omission: 'Here in case you have missed it is the latest Travolta'. The implication here of course is that if we have not heard 'the latest Travolta' we have not lived and that we are all one happy band of brothers, automatic fans of the latest pop idol and his paltry musical creations.
The BBC tell us that one of the reasons why they want to increase the licence money is to provide more local radio transmitters. The mindless miscellany, which is all that local radio is, tends to reduce the population to the same dead level of non-discriminating, non-elitist mediocrity and I cannot see what justification there is for its further proliferation at public expense. After all, if I want to know the precise piece of musical drivel Mrs Bloggs wants the BBC to play for her daughter who is a patient in a mental hospital in Swindon I can always tune in to Radios 1 or 2.
G. Reichardt 13 Hanover Court, Wyebank View, Tutshill, Chepstow
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