RTÉ's repeat prescription

Sir, – On the the last Tuesday in June, RTÉ treated us to a repeat of a Christmas edition of Ear to the Ground.

If this is the best it can manage, why do we have RTÉ, with all the angst and controversy that goes with the organisation?

Maybe let it retain news and current affairs and leave all the rest of it off to the commercial sector. – Yours, etc,

BOB TWIGG,

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