Letter: A critic's lot
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Your listings writer Gerard Gilbert asks of BBC2's Late Review: "How did Allison Pearson, Tony Parsons and Tom Paulin get this one sewn up?" (Thursday Review, 1 April). The current series of Late Review has rotated 15 critics, with appearances by the three Ps together forming easily a minority of editions.
"Why are the guests always journalists?" he asks. Novelists and historians are well-represented. We don't use producers, actors, and publishers because those involved in an artform are usually reluctant to criticise it.
MARK LAWSON
Presenter
Late Review, BBC2
London W1
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