Alex isn’t talking a good Games

I agree with Digby Jones’s comments about Alex

Scott’s poor enunciation. There was a time, not so long ago, when clear diction was a prerequisite for broadcasting. The BBC should be endeavouring to maintain high standards rather than lowering the bar to cater to all and sundry for fear of being accused of elitism.

In this Olympic year, being one of the elite is being celebrated, and the same ambition for excellence should be applied to public broadcasting.

Patrick Walkden-Barr, Tarporley, Cheshire

Lord Jones was simply being rude. We shouldn’t make excuses for such people. Alex (left) is TV gold, both articulate and intelligent.

T. Gardner, Surrey

Alex says she is working-class and proud of being unable to pronounce her Gs.

I was born in an air-raid shelter in the centre of Birmingham and my whole life has been very working-class, but I was educated during and after the Second World War and, like Digby Jones, I refuse to listen to lazy speech.

J. Jones, Bristol

I think Alex is coming across well. We all have accents – why should everyone speak as blandly as this peer?

S. Matthews,

Edinburgh