16 OCTOBER 1982, page 33

High Life

Missing link Taki Athens B ack in the good old days, when ex-King Constantine was the heir to the Hellenic throne and Melina Mercouri did not con- c ern herself with Elgin's......

Television

. . . and yet again Richard Ingrams I was not quite right last week about the 1. book programmes. No sooner had I in" ferred that the BBC had abandoned the idea than I read in......

Low Life

Watertight Jeffrey Bernard I t had never occurred to me until last Sun- day that I might have anything in com- mon with a 450-year-old battleship. And why should it? But I......