Skilled, experienced and encouraging local guides and porters ensured we reached the peak of Kilimanjaro in 2017. They supported us and everyone else I know who has reached the peak through the pain, emotion and challenge, but they were nowhere in evidence in the recent BBC coverage of the celebrity ascent for Comic Relief. Is this another example of white saviours doing it alone (Comic Relief raises £8m less this year amid ‘white saviour’ debate, 18 March) or a missed opportunity to show inspiring African role models in action?
Fiona Jones and Brigitt Bailey
Ashtead, Surrey
• After a long night on stage I travel home in the darkness of 11pm to my home in Sussex. I feel I have friends on the radio and enjoy the often eclectic mix of music which makes night closures on various motorways bearable. I would hate my drive home even more if Radio 3’s Late Junction was cut from the airwaves (Letters, 20 March).
Chris Difford
Firle, East Sussex
• We’ve just been celebrating the 25th anniversary of the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Church of England but, yet again, the compiler of the Quick crossword (20 March, clue 19 across) thinks only clergymen live in rectories.
Maggie Butcher
London
• Two cars to beauty spots to do a linear walk (Letters, 20 March)? That’s a pretty good case for circular walks.
Angela Lawrence
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
• My partner Pat and I have a better solution to the problem of non-circular walks. We leave our bikes at the end of the walk so we can ride back to where we left the car at the start. One car instead of two.
Geof Branch
London
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