Humphrys kebab

SIR – The critics of John Humphrys (report, January 13) must be resisted. It is often a joy hearing the man skewering the slippery and disingenuous. Ross Watkin

Chipstead, Surrey

SIR – It amazes me that a professional broadcaster with John Humphrys’s experience should think anything he says while wearing a microphone and sitting in a broadcast studio is private. Dr Michael A Fopp

Soulbury, Buckinghamshire