• In a piece about the artist Joan Eardley (Drawn to decline, 11 February, page 17, Review), we described Townhead as “a part of the Old Gorbals”. In fact the two are separate parts of Glasgow: Townhead is an area near Glasgow Cathedral, north of the Clyde, while the Gorbals is on the south bank of the river.

• An interview with Mel Brooks referred to his 2000 Year Old Man routine, and said: “Pressed to identify the greatest invention, the oldest man in the world extolled the virtues of aluminum foil.” The invention he praised was Saran wrap, otherwise known as clingfilm (‘Trump doesn’t scare me. He’s a song-and-dance man’, 11 February, page 31).

• Because of an editing error, in a review of the forthcoming BBC1 drama SS-GB (Swastika-strewn London in shades of noir, 16 February, page 11) we suggested that Robert Harris’s alternative-history novel Fatherland had become a successful television series. Fatherland was adapted into a TV film, not a series.

• A review of a BBC documentary about Hull misnamed the city’s Ferens art gallery, as Farens (13 February, page 21, G2).