Mr. Frost, at the age of 28, was one of the best-known figures on both the English and the American airwaves-and presumably also airlines, since he crossed the Atlantic twice a week to maintain his double hegemony. He argues stoutly, and with plausible illustrations, that there really isn't much difference between English and American audiences-despite, as Mr. Buckley puts it, the expectation that, because of the BBC, there would be "in England ... a listening audience that is more sophisticated, more inquisitive, more demanding than the American audience." Not at all, says Mr. Frost. In fact, "I think the picture of there being ... in some curious way ... lower taste or less intelligence in the mass audience in America compared with England is either a ludicrous piece of modesty on the part of Americans or a plot by the East Coast and the West Coast to denigrate the people in the middle of the country." Much about styles of public conversation and interviewing, and a fascinating side-glance at Enoch Powell.