Whoever hired Henry Mance to play himself in the TV show Industry and then provided him with a script missed a trick (“My bit part in the golden age of TV”, Opinion, Life & Arts, October 1).

When I was hired to play myself conducting interviews for an Afternoon Play on BBC Radio 4 many years ago, the director simply gave my “interviewees” and me a rough story outline and told us to get on with it, using our own words.

I was rewarded by a review that described my portrayal of myself doing what I was paid to do as “pitch perfect”.

Robin Lustig
London N10, UK