Those who tire of ridiculous plots in TV soaps (Letters, 2 April) might prefer the gentle pace of life in Ambridge. The everyday story of country folk in The Archers only occasionally features things such as coercive control leading to a stabbing, modern slavery resulting in an explosion and fire at a country house hotel, and an armed robbery at the Post Office. But thankfully no murders yet, unless you count the time David Archer shot a badger.
Barbara Williams
Sparsholt, Hampshire
• The prefix “centi” means “one hundredth”. So a “centibillionaire” (Six tips for budding centibillionaires (No 1: come from a very wealthy family, 6 April) would be worth £10m, which Jeremy Hunt would no doubt regard as “not particularly high”. If we must have a word for someone worth £100bn, it would be a “hectobillionaire”.
Alan Robinson
Griffydam, Leicestershire
• Rebecca Shaw says that even “when you hate the new thing, it gives you something positive” (What’s so bad about a reboot? It doesn’t dilute the original, it adds to it, 4 April). She’s obviously not seen Ant and Dec’s remake of an episode of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?.
Nick Richards
Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset
• Othello a hero (Quick crossword, 5 April)? I did the play for A-level years ago. I thought Othello was a silly pillock for believing the tripe that Iago was telling him.
Tony Hodbod
Haslingden, Lancashire
• Charles J Corrigan (Letters, 5 April) writes “from the US, where freedom of expression is sacrosanct”. I must have imagined all those articles I’ve been reading about American school boards banning books then.
Denis Beaumont
Wombourne, Staffordshire
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