A weekly television program which comments on the media noted that for a television news story about John Williams and his latest opus, both the newsreader and the caption identified him as John Williamson. John Williamson is a very popular Australian country singer, not, says he hastily, that I am aware of any of his work. The program also pointed out that John Williams, the guitarist, who is also Australian, is at pains on his web site to distinguish himself from the composer. Yet another of the doubtless many people to answer to the name is the actor who, for me, stole Dial M for Murder in the part of the police inspector. Richard Pennycuick [log in to unmask]