27 JANUARY 1979, page 29

Theatre

Avant gauche Peter Jenkins The Hang of the Jail (R SC, Warehouse) Daughters of Men (Hampstead) Plainly Howard Barker has been studying how he may compare the prison where he......

Cinema

Nice guy Ted Whitehead Magic (Odeon, Haymarket) Ashanti (Odeon, Leicester Square) You can settle back in your seat with the certainty that you'll jump up from it several times......

Television

Physical Richard ingrams Thanks to Mr Ray Buckton and his merry men I was compelled to spend Monday night in London and was thus unable to watch the new Eamonn Andrews show......