A letter published in The Guardian has highlighted the emotional impact of the Channel 4 docudrama 'Dirty Business', which focuses on pollution in UK rivers and seas. The writer, Sheila Brignall from Great Chishill, Cambridgeshire, compared the programme to the play 'Hamnet', suggesting that the documentary was far more affecting.
Brignall noted that friends had recommended bringing tissues to 'Hamnet' due to its sadness, but she found 'Dirty Business' to be more emotionally powerful. The docudrama features a storyline in which a young girl dies of E. coli after playing on a beach in the West Country.
The letter was among several published on 23 February, covering topics from cockles to political metaphors. Other correspondents discussed grit-free cockles, Tony Blair and Iraq, Monty Python's semaphore version of 'Wuthering Heights', and a widow's method of counting widows to fall asleep.
