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Judi Dench v Eileen Atkins SIR: I adore Judi Dench and have celebrated her in print scores of times. But ‘our greatest living actress', as Gyles Brandreth says? I suspect Judi herself would give at least equal billing to Eileen Atkins, also 90 years old. Take just one of many remarkable achievements, her performance in Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana at the National in 1992. I'll never forget the way she held the first-night audience rapt for long, long minutes with the stillness, precision, warmth and depth she brought to one of the strangest, saddest monologues ever written. Benedict Nightingale, former Times theatre critic, London SW6 Dagenham Girl Pipers FC SIR: Your December-issue Olden Life (Dagenham Girl Pipers, by Mike Foley) reminded me of my favourite football riddle.…

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