Duncan Campbell (Selling the Krays, 4 September) omitted one famous portrayal of the Kray era – Monty Python’s Piranha brothers, Doug and Dinsdale. Given that interviewee Maureen Flanagan had worked with the Pythons, did she contribute anything to the script? Perhaps Spiny Norman existed after all.
Tim Skelton
Bury St Edmunds, Surrey
• Tony Augarde (Letters, 27 August) refers to “old Jack Lang” as “the hero of long–forgotten anecdotes”. Jack Lang was a socialist premier of New South Wales, who introduced much-needed welfare benefits for its citizens during the depression. Inevitably his policies brought him into conflict with the conservative opposition and he was duly sacked by the state governor. To his many opponents, he would always be “that bugger Lang”. He lived to 98 and died in 1975.
Bill Hobba
Tonbridge, Kent
• Felicity Cloake’s article on madeleines (G2, 3 September) really took me back.
Alasdair McKee
Lancaster
