17 OCTOBER 1998, page 59

Radio

Sixties twaddle Michael Vestey W hen, in 1966, I fancied myself as a drama critic, I was sent by a magazine, London Life, to review a play called US or `us' staged at the......

Cinema

A Perfect Murder (15, selected cinemas) Missing the point Mark Steyn T he first thing Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder has going for it is a hit title, which is about 30 per......

Television

Hymn to a small town Edward Heathcoat Amory I n small-town America, if we believe Hollywood's cinematic anthropologists, children are born into home-made popcorn American......