As a sufferer of hyperacusis (extreme sensitivity to loud noise) I was anxious about watching Blue Planet II, following complaints about invasively loud music (Letters, 17 November). Having now enjoyed three episodes without issue, might I gently suggest that those struggling should get their hearing tested, as I suspect that, in order to hear the commentary (and not because of the music), they are turning the sound up way too high.

Jill Wallis

Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire

• Charles Manson was, according to your obituary (21 November), “responsible for the most infamous mass murder of the 20th century” yet “was never convicted of killing anyone personally”. I guess Adolf Hitler might surpass Manson by a factor of about a million in accomplishment of appalling actions. We, in the 21st century, might still need to focus on big issues and not minor events, tragic though they were in Manson’s case.

Dale Sanders

Norwich

• Suzanne Moore (Manson … should not be treated like an idol, 21 November) is right, but why were so many column inches of Tuesday’s paper given over to him?

Margaret Vandecasteele

Wick, Caithness

• You were surely right to illustrate your article on smoking in French films (20 November, printed version) with a still from Jean-Luc Godard’s appropriately titled A bout de souffle. But the big fat fag that Jean-Paul Belmondo draws on incessantly is a Boyard, rather than the more conventionally sized Gauloise that the article suggests.

Ed Lilley

Bristol

• I am compiling a 2018 calendar with a Guardian photograph for each month of Theresa and Philip May arriving at or leaving church. But you have not yet published one in November. Please print one on Monday or my calendar will be missing a month.

Stephen Glick

St Albans

• The chancellor tells us that the future lies with vehicles that are “driverless” – a designation he is no doubt familiar with as a member of the present government.

Jane Moth

Snettisham, Norfolk

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