27 FEBRUARY 1982, page 29

Television

Plugging away Richard Ingrams w ith every week that passes the BBC's output gets more and more trashy. One leafs through the Radio Times with in- creasing desperation looking......

Theatre

Dead weight Mark Amory The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. ( Mermaid) Hedda Gabler (Yvonne Arnaud, Guilford) H itler is dead and so, for me, are books plays and films about......

Art

Plain precision John McEwen I t is not exactly controversial of the Tate Gallery to mount a huge Landseer ex- hibition (till 12 April), but it is surprising enough to be......