• Following Giles Oakley’s letter about the BBC and Anti-Nazi League badges: I appeared with my school folk group on a BBC Sunday Service broadcast in the late 1970s. My guitar had stickers on it, including an ANL one, a Rock Against Racism, and one for the now defunct local electricity board. Before I was allowed to sing with the group, I was asked to cover up the ANL and RAR stickers. I gave up the folk group soon afterwards.
Yvonne Gustard
London
• The best Bond film (in all but name) is North by Northwest (G2, 24 August). It has the best villain (James Mason), female lead (Eva Marie Saint) and climax location (Mount Rushmore). It even has the best suits. Every Bond film that followed is a pale homage to the film, its star and, of course, its director.
Roger Osborne
Scarborough, North Yorkshire
• My mother, who died in 2011 aged 97, was a member of the Temperance Society. At her last birthday party she was offered a glass of sherry. “I’m a member of the Temperance Society, so don’t tell anyone,” she joked. Perhaps it killed her.
Janette Ward
Tarrington, Herefordshire
• Whoever set today’s Wordsearch (G2, 24 August) needs to be told some “famous writers” are actually women!
Barbara Lee
London
• Since, back in Turner’s day, the Royal Academy allowed exhibitors to supply poetic quotations with the titles of their works, and Turner himself was not averse (pun intended) to doing so, perhaps the 5,000 pages from his sketchbooks consisted of blank verse (Letters, 24 August)?
Adrian Brodkin
London
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