Sir John,

First let me say you are absolutely right. Far too much crap on telly.

Two points come to my mind:-

1. It's not UK TV that provides the worst muck. They actually use our money to buy it in. Filter out all the imports and the proportion of rubbish in what's left is rather lower, 'tho still not good enough.

2. You raised the question "Who's responsible?", and commented that they should be shot. Perhaps you should sit down before I tell you the bad news. WE are responsible!! As long as we turn the bloody thing on, and give their advertisers multi million ratings, they don't need to improve the programming.

So here's the answer. Let's campaign for a nationwide turn off for just one day. If we all do something else for twenty four hours, they will s**t themselves, and (after a change of underwear) they will re-think their programming so fast it'll make your head spin.

B.T.W. as it's my idea can we do it on a Thursday. That's the night my folk club runs, and it'll be nice to have a capacity audience. The last one was our opening night with Les Barker.

Don T.