19 AUGUST 1966, page 15

Sport Fever

TELEVISION I the week ending July 31, the BBC had ten 'programmes in TAM's Top Twenty. No. I —equal with No Hiding Place — was a World Cup match, seen in six and three-quarter......

A Play Makes War

&En THEATRE By HILARY SPURLING But now, no more like suppliants we come; A Play makes war, and Prologue is the drum: Armed with keen satire and with pointed wit, We threaten......

Disconcerto

MUSIC A MIDDLING-TO-SPLENDID week of Proms didn't /Aso much end as terminally explode, in the controversial sense, with Roberto Gerhard's Concerto for Orchestra, which reached......