25 FEBRUARY 2006, page 51

Housework On Ice

Simon Hoggart W here do the commentators on the Winter Olympics (BBC2) go for the other three years and 50 weeks? I imagine them living in caves. Then, just after Christmas, BBC......

Filthy Lucre

Michael Vestey T he historian Bettany Hughes, presenter of Amongst the Medici on Radio Four this week (Wednesday), seemed in her first programme — one of three — a bit sniffy......

Singing In The Rain

Robin Oakley I s there perhaps at the bottom of the Thames, slithering back and forth with the tides, a muddy heap of mobile phones, glowing faintly in the dark, some emitting......