Dear Mr Cornwall: I’ve just heard the ‘Desert Island Discs’ programme (re-brodcast today, February 20th) and have to say what an impression you made on me! I’m also a war baby (a year older than you) but by no means as successful! How I’d love to be an author but, while I enjoy writing, that confleunce of events or non-events never happended in my life and I ended up a husband and father…so am all the more impressed by your success! And your own eventful life – I will now go out and buy your biography! Best wishes, Mike Abbott