THE piece about BBC radio by Chris Titley struck a chord with me (July 23).

I, too, am a life-long devotee of Radio 4. We have three radios in our house, all tuned in to that marvellous station. I feel I know the presenters personally and keep up to date with all the news and goings-on at home and abroad through Radio 4.

Also, like Chris, I feel disenchanted by television, even the BBC at times. What has happened to all the people who wrote programmes such as Fawlty Towers, The Good Life, Open All Hours and Yes, Minster?

Have they all succumbed to the cheap, but popular, call for sex, violence and more sex and violence?

It is as though it is not enough to read about these things in the media - we have to suffer them as so-called entertainment.

The soaps, too, seem to vie with each another to shock and sicken viewers with the total lack of morals and the abysmal behaviour of the characters.

Real life, maybe, but entertaining,?

Surely not.

Heather Causnett,

Escrick Park Gardens,

Escrick,

York.

Updated: 11:09 Saturday, July 26, 2003