Differentials for burying the war dead | Brief letters
PJ Murphy wonders if the young men of Eton and Winchester who colluded to cheat in examinations are heading for a career in banking (Letters, 1 September). If history is a guide, I suspect that they are as likely to make their way into politics, where they will find they are equally well prepared and be welcomed by familiar faces who had been taught in the same way.
Alan Brown
York
" Mark Lawson isn't quite accurate with his assertion (Strike action, Review, 26 August) that Graham Greene is one of a handful of British authors now joined by JK Rowling who have had all their novels adapted for either film or TV. The most significant omission in Greene's book-to-film canon is his 1961 novel A Burnt Out Case, set in a Congo leper colony. When I was writing Travels in Greeneland: The Cinema of Graham Greene more than 30 years ago, he told me: "[Otto] Preminger bought the option twice for that book. Thank God he never made it."
Quentin Falk
Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire