11 DECEMBER 1993, page 56

Long Life

My kind of music Nigel Nicolson W hen you come to think of it, the suc- cess of Desert Island Discs is extraordinary. Roy Plomley's formula was very odd indeed. One has to......

Low Life

Bed of nettles Jeffrey Bernard T en days ago I was flattened by one of the infections that are doing the rounds. It was and is a particularly virulent one and it called for a......