AS someone whose occasional dose of horror is via The Archers (Radio 4) when field-gates are left open and cows end up in ditches and sheep are being selected for the abbatoir, I can only suggest that Rosemary Goring (“Pass the remote: There’s far too much gore on our TV”, The Herald, January 9) puts her TV in the bin, as life is lovely without it.

If knitting or delousing the dog doesn’t “float her boat” there is always the The Herald to peruse or choosing a book one hasn’t read for about 30 years.

There is also “solo” Scrabble where playing against oneself always ensures that you win.

Failing that, there is another We Need To Talk about Death, also on Radio 4, or sitting watching Windows as it works through its endless “updates”. Quelle Horreur!

Thelma Edwards,

Old Comrades Hall,

Hume, Kelso

ROSEMARY Goring really hits the nail on the head with her observations on the gruesome detail on many of the offerings on the TV in general and on the BBC in particular. If the strategy is to help to achieve the steady brutalisation of our society it is certainly succeeding, aided and abetted by some branches of media.

Is it any wonder that we are seeing increasingly unsolicited and random violent behaviour? Lord Reith will be spinning in his grave.

John Spence,

32 Comminhead Street,

Airdrie.