Four-minute mile's forgotten man | Brief letters

Michael Palin on Michele Hanson | Tom Hulatt | Irn-Bru | Mnemonics The death of Michele Hanson has deprived us of a unique voice (Letters, 6 March). No one I know wrote with such ferocious gentleness. Strong feelings were always at the heart of her writing but she never banged on. She knew where to start and where to stop, and she used her natural easy humour to take us on little outings from which we returned smiling and feeling better about the world, while never forgetting for one moment that...