These children left us with a resource that simply exists nowhere else in private hands.  It is a resource that the BBC themselves have drawn on (until they realised that the material cut out of the repeat playing of 'Round The Horne' was cut out for a reason - filthiness - and stopped asking for copies!).  But it is uncoordinated, unindexed.

The benefit though is the persistence of children.  They don't give up.  They explore every avenue.  Every possibility.  They don't accept defeat.

One way of achieving the early aims of Transdiffusion was to write to the broadcasters - persistently.  Any unclear point?  They wrote.  Any questions?  They wrote.  Any clear tips on exactly what the broadcasters were doing wrong?  They wrote.

The answers are informative.  Firstly, today broadcasters don't, frankly, give a stuff about people who write in.  Especially children.  Secondly, the exasperated tones of the people who did reply comes through, thus revealing a secret.

Broadcasters didn't stop replying because it became 'irrelevant' or because the writers were 'unrepresentative'.  They stopped because they couldn't be bothered to reply to the audience who they are - allegedly - there for.  They laugh at us for thinking they should be interested.  They were doing so then, but were scared of frightening off viewers.  All things end, I suppose.

In the following brief gallery of replies, we have obscured several parts of the reply - mainly the addresses of the correspondents, as they no longer apply.  Everything else is how it was the day the envelope landed on the mat.