From Mr Don Valentine
Sir, - The item on Sunday Half Hour (News, 23 August) made
interesting reading, not least because of the BBC's statistical
omissions. How many listeners were already tuned into Radio 2 at 6
a.m., before Sunday Half Hour was transplanted (as
Sunday Hour), and how many listeners moved from 8.30 p.m.
to the new time?
No mention is made of the BBC's regional stations, many of which
broadcast "religious" programmes from an early hour on Sundays.
Traditionally, BBC Sussex/BBC Surrey have aired Sunday
Breakfast for three hours from 6 a.m., and have recently
introduced, in addition, a "Sunday half-hour" of uninterrupted
hymn-singing from 5.30 a.m. (An old saying: "Sussex people won't be
druve.")
DON VALENTINE
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