Your article (‘Banishment-level posh’: why is The Traitors so middle-class?, 8 January) doesn’t mention that the application form for The Traitors asks you to be available for up to four weeks in the summer. Little hope for working-class would-be contestants in our gig-economy, zero-hours, can’t-take-more-than-two-weeks-off-in-a-row culture.
Liv Bishop
London
• Xaymaca Awoyungbo’s article resonated (They say a name like mine can hold you back in life, but I will never change it, 13 January). When I was a student, a senior doctor suggested I change my “difficult” name to advance in my career. I resisted due to pride in my heritage that my name represented. I have not done too badly, becoming a consultant urology surgeon and a professor, and gaining an MBE.
Prof Frank Chinegwundoh
London
