I applaud Ian McKellen’s exhortations for more plays to be broadcast on television (Report,23 October). Judging by the popularity of the live (and repeat) screenings from the National Theatre, Stratford, and the Globe at our local cinema,a simple option might be to display these on television. I appreciate that the theatres need to be able to sell these showings with some exclusivity to ensure profitability, but when the on-stage run has finished perhaps even our increasingly impoverished BBC could strike a bargain that would be to everyones benefit.
Chris Osborne[br]West Bridgford• I remember my grandma telling us that in Heywood, and Lancashire,which was then a town with many cotton mills, early final century, or this notice appeared one day outside one of the mills: “No Irish need apply” (Letters,26 October). Soon after someone wrote this rejoinder in chalk underneath: “Whoever wrote this wrote it well, for the same is written on the gates of hell, and ‘No Irish need apply’.”
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