22 JANUARY 1983, page 30

Radio

Serious matters Maureen Owen 'There is something tragic in the way BBC I radio has struggled to achieve a posi- tion of high esteem in the Eighties, only to decide to throw it......

Television

Half-baked Richard Ingrams B reakfast television, which made its J-. 0 debut on Monday, is something for which there is no demand. The BBC are do- ing it because they want to......

High Life

Open secrets Taki New York w hat would you think of a movie that had the President of the United States taking the waters in a Southern spa on a late autumn day in 1941, when......