The Guardian’s Julie Burchill Support Society has really outdone itself: large articles by Hadley Freeman and Will Self (8 November), and a whole page by John Crace (Digested read, G2, 17 November). How lucky she is to have such influential friends, giving her thousands of pounds worth of free publicity while pretending to diss her book. Why does this unimportant writer get so much attention? Without all this fanfare, who would even have been aware of this book?
Marlene McAndrew
London
• With reference to the article by Harold Evans on thalidomide (15 November), Jacqui and David Morris’s enthralling documentary Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime, will be screened on Sunday 23 November at the Bath film festival, with Jacqui and David taking a Q&A after the screening.
Mel Henry
Documentary programmer, Bath film festival
• Turning the page after reading how very grim the original Grimms’ tales were, I see the headline “Man cut up father and used boxed up body parts as TV stand” (13 November). Rather than merely storytellers, might the brothers have been current affairs chroniclers?
Mark Lewinski
Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire
• Rather than being appended to Alan Turing’s film, surely Tommy Flowers and Colossus deserve a film of their own? It’s a terrific story.
Cherry Lavell
(Post-Colossus operator, Eastcote, circa 1953), Cheltenham
• With increasingly eventful episodes of The Archers, should Nancy Banks-Smith’s column be weekly rather than monthly (A month in Ambridge, G2, 22 October)?
Dr Rameet Singh
London
• At Cambridge folk festival, a T-shirt on a young woman who I assume studied English: “Like Beowulf, I am impossible to date” (Letters, 15 November).
Peter Lowthian
Marlow, Buckinghamshire
