It seems that Richard Wilson, head of comedy entertainment at Hat Trick, wasn’t asked why his profitable company paid a runner so badly that he needed a weekend job in Stoke to pay his weekday rent in London (Interview, 13 April). He said: “If you work in television and don’t know someone who lives in London it’s impossible. That’s a problem and the industry needs to address it.” He is the industry. What’s stopping him?
Marcia Wheeler
London
• While some viewers may have been moderately interested in Poldark’s pre-breakfast beach strip in last Sunday’s episode (Previews, The Guide, 11 April), they should be far more concerned about the challenge to Copernicus just before it, which showed the sun apparently rising in a shallow arc from right to left, pretty amazing for the northern hemisphere, even in Cornwall. The Captain will no doubt explain all.
Dr Chris Haughton
Master mariner, Preesall, Lancashire
• Back in 1975, I seem to recollect it being pointed out that Poldark was an anagram of Old Krap. It still is.
Steve Mills
Uphall, West Lothian
• Caroline Ewans asks whether all left-handed children in China are forced to write right-handed (Letters, 14 April). My daughter-in-law, born, educated and still living in China, uses her left hand for writing and using chopsticks. Her handwriting is beautiful in both Chinese and English.
Charles Barnwell
Birmingham
• When I was teaching in a nursery class in the 80s, one child called me “Mummy” and was corrected by her peers. From then on, in class, my daughter called me Mrs Hardy (Letters, 13 April).
Deborah Hardy
London
• Perhaps those responsible for advertising homeopathic remedies (Letters, 14 April) could find inspiration in the 70s claim that “nothing works faster than Anadin”?
Liz Ratcliffe
Reading
