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Television

Not in so many words Wendy Cope itten by a rabid skunk and fearing madness, a man chains himself to a beam in a barn to protect his familY. Then he realises that the farm is......

Cinema

Pirates ('PO' selected cinemas) Everything but the parrot Peter Ackroyd T here are costume dramas and costume dramas; some concentrate primarily upon the drama, like Marat Sade,......

Radio

Youth training Noel Malcolm W ho would have thought that Top of the Form had so many friends and admir- ers? The news of its impending death has got enormous coverage in the......