Parliament Boycott could be a winner | Brief letters

Dad’s Army | Cricketing leaders | Heatwave | Morris Minors | Collective name for SantasHuw Wheldon, then MD of BBC, confessed that, at a rehearsal of Dad’s Army (Mark Lawson, 25 July) he knew that “we had a disaster on our hands”. At the coffee break, all was revealed. Huw had assumed John Le Mesurier (tall and languid) was to be the officer and Arthur Lowe (short and bouncy) the sergeant. The opposite was, of course, the essential joke. Comedy is a serious business.
John