17 JANUARY 1987, page 32

Radio

Here yesterday Noel Malcolm W hen John Timpson was asked why he was leaving the Today programme after so many years, he said that he thought he ought to get out while he was......

Cinema

Heavy- Peter Ackroyd I t is generally agreed that the death of Andrey Tarkovsky has brought to an un- happy and unanticipated end a great Rus- sian sensibility, one which......