16 JANUARY 1982, page 26

Television

Artless Richard Ingrams T did warn Barry Norman a few month s 'ago that he was in danger of becoming too much of a good thing. The trouble V the BBC, like all big monopolist......

Cinema

Bananas Duncan Fallowell So Fine (`AA', selected cinemas) B eware. The banana skin is making a comeback, only this time it is calling itself 'stylish screwball comedy'. So Fine......

Art

More splendours John McEwen T he Great Japan Exhibition: Art of the Edo Period 1600-1868 — unmatched since 1910 and to be seen nowhere but here (least of all in Japan where they......