IN response to Mr Kaiserman (Letters, September 10) I would like to say that the television programme "Secret Agent", about the BNP, did us no harm at all (14 lost members and 1,000 new ones in the month following), and anyone with an ounce of common sense would see that it was a total sham.

The BBC spent six months and 100 hours filming after infiltrating various groups and were deeply disappointed that all that the licence-payers money produced were a couple of idiots from one BNP group who were "mouthing-off" - probably after being plied with drink.

These people would normally have already been expelled from the party, except for the fact that members reported their behaviour to the group organiser at Bradford who, in my view, was collaborating with the BBC and did not do his job properly. In conjunction with the BBC he was trying to discredit the party.

More notable was the fact that this programme was allowed to go ahead prior to the June elections while a Channel 4 documentary, which investigated Asian gangs and their links to drugs and prostitution, was stopped.

Final point: the BNP were trying to calm the rioters in Oldham in order to defuse the situation and it is unfair of Mr Kaiserman not to mention the Bradford riots, which featured Asian gangs.

MRS AUSTIN