I recently had the pleasure of seeing Steve Coogan in the excellent National Theatre Live production of Dr Strangelove at a local cinema. Afterwards, I reread Arifa Akbar’s review of the stage show from last year (29 October). Six months down the track, “an edgy, absurdist story” sadly no longer appears quite so absurdist.
John Rushton
Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire
• Re the negative nature of TV news (Letters, 6 April), when my wife and I sit down to watch the news at 10pm, we actually go back to the 6pm news on catch-up. That way, we can fast-forward through the “may-find-upsettings”, the grief interviews, the sex crimes and the vox pops. On a bad-news night we get to bed much earlier.
Doug Miles
Hasfield, Gloucestershire
