The Word on the Street: Hugh Cudlipp, Sue MacGregor, Eastenders' get-out clause, Good Housekeeping

Stephen Glover, in his Media Studies column in The Spectator, makes a gracious apology for getting the late Hugh Cudlipp's job title wrong – he was editorial director of the Daily Mirror from 1952 to 1963, but was never editor. And what was the context of the errors? It was an article chiding other media commentators for referring to the Mirror Group legend in pieces about the Daily Mirror today. Most media commentators, Glover opined, simply did not know enough about Cudlipp to pretend to be experts on his views.

¿ Sue MacGregor was intrigued to notice what looked like a famous name amid the fan mail for her Radio 4 series Fifty Years On. So she phoned to check. And, yes, it was Max Bygraves who had dropped her a note. And Ms MacGregor is now the happy recipient of tickets for his upcoming West End show.

¿ So Todd Carty, aka Mark Fowler, will escape EastEnders alive, it appears. Andrew Collins, a former EastEnders scriptwriter and now of the Radio Times, says that there's nothing a writer likes more than killing off a character, but Carty has agreed his departure with BBC bosses and so should survive. "If you've done a secret deal with ITV, like Martin Kemp [who played the gangster Steve Owen], you'll probably get killed off. If you leave on good terms, like Todd, the door's more likely to be left open."

¿ We don't wish to pour cold water on Good Housekeeping's 80th birthday celebrations. But can it really be true, as is claimed, that one of the first communications from the Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi after her release from house arrest was to its offices in London? "We'd heard that during her imprisonment, she liked to read copies of GH when she could get hold of them," the editor, Lindsay Nicholson, writes. The magazine must have one hell of a distribution team.