Bad read

My belief in the BBC’s death wish is strengthened by its decision to broadcast as a “Book at Bedtime” Hilary Mantel’s vile fantasy of a successful assassination of Margaret Thatcher.

Not only are we entering the run-up to a general election but people were killed and Lord Tebbit’s wife paralysed in the IRA’s real-life attempt to murder the former prime minister. This book is unfit for bedtime or any other time.

(Dr) John Cameron

St Andrews