11 JANUARY 1986, page 48

High Life

Paradise isle Taki St Barthelemy Imagine what the Caribbean was 25 years ago, before the 3,000-mile-long neck- lace of islands stretching from the Bahamas to South America......

Gardens

Obscuring the view Ursula Buchan F or most people, severed for ever from any rural root and denied access to the oral traditions that naturally accompany grow- ing up in the......

Television

A bishop's body Alexander Chancellor M atthew Parris is a bit of a boy scout of an MP whose recreation is listed in Who's Who as 'distance running'. Since he was only 30 years......