SIR - I live in Southampton and I usually shy away from 15-hour round-trip rail journeys so, until this week, I had never been to Bradford, but I will be back again soon.

I came up for The Radical Brontes Festival, lured north at the prospect of seeing Ken Russell direct a dance on the lawn of Bronte Parsonage - which I did see.

I had a fantastic time, an absolutely perfect holiday.

At the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, where the staff were wonderfully helpful, I saw three films I had been wanting to see for more than a decade - two of them for free in the TV Heaven lounge.

I bought the new graphic novel of Wuthering Heights after attending an inspirational talk by the artist Siku; enjoyed the small but quietly spectacular Hockney exhibition at Cartwright Hall; and when, on Saturday night at the Alhambra, at the world premiere of the ballet The Three Musketeers, scored from the works of Malcolm Arnold, it was announced from the stage that Arnold had died, there was nowhere in the world I would rather have been.

Paul Sutton, Alma Road, Southampton