21 MARCH 1981, page 27

Theatre

In excess Peter Jenkins The Golden Age (Greenwich) The Crimson Island (Gate) Enjoyment sometimes prevails over one's better critical judgments in the theatre. My tolerance of......

Cinema

Country life Peter Ackroyd Coal Miner's Daughter (A', selected cinemas) This purports to be the biography of Loretta Lynn, a 'country-and-western' singer; one might as well talk......

Television

Touché Richard In grams Clive James the burly self-satisfied TV critic of the Observer has hit back at me, following my remarks about his appalling performance on Parkinson.......