Your correspondent (Letters, 1 September) will be pleased to hear that the BBC World Service offers an educational programme – Dars – for children aged 11 to 16 who are banned from school. Hosted by BBC Afghan female journalists who were evacuated from Kabul during the 2021 Taliban takeover, the fourth series starts this month, with lessons in Dari and Pashto.
Jonathan Munro
Global director, BBC News
• The Met Office’s proposed storm names are not only the usual anodyne list, seemingly designed to make them appear unthreatening, but also a celebration of its history (Met Office releases names for next season of storms expected to batter UK, 29 August). It has acknowledged the impact of the climate crisis on the severity and frequency of storms, so when will it start naming them after the causes of this crisis? Could I suggest Aramco, BP, Chevron, Shell, Exxon?
Paul Johns
Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire
