Leonardo drawings in the Royal Collection are indeed to be on display in London from 24 May (Briefing, 22 April). But a fine selection of the drawings is on show right now, free, in regional museums, until 6 May. Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool I have seen so far, with Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Sheffield, Southampton and Sunderland still on my list. So celebrate Leonardo’s 500th and your local museum – no need to go to London at all!
John Freeman
Kingswinford, West Midlands
• No mention of Deirdre, the much-loved Anne Kirkbride, or her mother Blanche, the brilliant Maggie Jones (The triumph of Corrie’s screen queens, G2, 24 April)? Blanche’s scene at Peter’s AA meeting still reduces me to tears of laughter. Iconic characters. Hilda Ogden and Vera too, never forgotten.
Jean Jackson
Seer Green, Buckinghamshire
• Your headline refers to the play-offs as a “lottery” (Maupay leaves jittery Leeds facing lottery of play-offs, 23 April). The play-offs consist of two-legged semi-finals and a final at a neutral venue – the same as the last four of many competitions including the Champions League. I look forward to a headline referring to that as a “lottery”?
Stuart Silvers
Walton-on-Thames, Surrey
• Do you think BBC One’s The Repair Shop could do anything with the UK?
Gail Hebert
Isleworth, London
• I like your new challenge of a Word wheel with no central letter (G2, 24 April). It is of course I, and the nine-letter word is adoringly. I claim my prize.
Val Kermode
Sheffield
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