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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment

On a televisual trip back to my 1980s childhood

Roland Rat leans out of car
‘Can I suggest that you that you line up interviews with Timmy Mallett, Roland Rat [above] and Trevor and Simon?’ Photograph: Shaun Higson colour/Alamy

As a child of the 1980s, I have really enjoyed being taken back to my childhood by your recent interviews with some of the decade’s TV icons, Su Pollard (17 August), Russ Abbott (24 August) and Mr T (3 September). To keep my nostalgia trip going, can I suggest that you line up interviews with Timmy Mallett, Roland Rat, and Trevor and Simon?
James Rolles
London

• Reform UK wants immigrants to have advanced command of English, yet its spokesman seems not to know the difference between “perpetuated” and “perpetrated” (Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film, 3 September).
Geoff Booth
Knebworth, Hertfordshire

• Please tell Emma Brockes that a couple of well-aimed sprays of white vinegar will shift the crust on her tap – and clean almost anything else too (The September reset is real. I’m about to become a better person, flaxseed by flaxseed, 3 September).
David Cordingley
Lincoln

• When people ask how I am (Letters, 2 September), at the age of 88, I say: “I am still here!”
Joyce Blackledge
Formby, Merseyside

• I desperately want to contribute to the nominative determinism debate (Letters, 4 September).
Jim Eager
Glasgow

• My response to this debate is to have a cup of tea.
Rosy Leigh
London

• I’m just pleased that there’s only one S in Les.
Les Bright
Exeter, Devon

• Have an opinion on anything you’ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section.

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