Letter from Ian Curteis to Betty Willingale The letter makes reference to Betty's retirement from the BBC 'It doesn't seem possible that the Beeb is, officially at any rate, without you'. He says he hears about her from Alan Plater. He sends her a book by his wife, Joanna Trollope, titled, 'The Choir,' ' I can say with my heand on my heard and objective professionalism, that it leaps of the page as natural television'. c 1988