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Your Letters

15:45 UK time, Wednesday, 5 January 2011

Re: Bruce Parry. Bruce Parry's programmes reveal something we have lost - a sense of community, of supporting each other with a positive sense of identity. I think many tribes would be appalled that we don't even know the people in our street, consider strangers not a possible new friends but as a potential threat. Many look at tribes as backward and primitive but I think it may be us who are truely lacking.
TimothyWhiskers, UK

I do enjoy Bruce Parry's programmes, but sometimes find this kind of programming a touch trite. I found a another series 'meet the natives', which involved some Pacific tribesman travelling to the UK to be even more thought provoking. Their take on the homeless situation in Manchester really raises some questions about the set-up of our own society. Look it up, truly compulsive viewing!
Steve556, UK

Re: Organ Donation by Andrew from Newark (Tuesday's letters). The idea is good but I can see people getting a bit cross about having to sign up their childrens' organs in order to ensure they may be entitled to one, should something bad happen to them. Plus, would the scheme literally be and eye for an eye? Do you recieve the same organ that you're willing to donate (eye, lung, liver etc)? On face value it sounds great but reality is a little more complex.
Jane, UK

Did quiz master Bob Holness really play saxophone on the late Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street? NO!
Ewan Mitchell

Re:Holness and Baker Street. Wish it was true but Stuart Maconie invented it.
Christine Adams

It's not a downer that the 24th January will be the most depressing day (Tuesday's letters). If I were Dr Pangloss, I would explain that since today isn't the 24th - and so is not the worst day - there is some cause for optimism. Even on the 24th, you know the next day - the 25th - will be better and have something to look forward to.
Lewis Graham, Hitchin

Syed is correct (Tuesday's letters). That's the day I get my bank statement. And after Christmas ("Dad, can I have a new... ?") I am left with too much month at the end of the money. Pay day is another week away.
Adrian, London, UK