29 SEPTEMBER 1990, page 46

Cinema

Longtime Companion ('15', selected cinemas) Curiously unshocking Hilary Mantel I seem to have upset a man of the cloth. A vicar of Wakefield writes (Letters, 22 September) to......

Theatre

Private Lives (Aldwych) The Rehearsal (Almeida) Static glamour Christopher Edwards Y ou could say that Noel Coward's Private Lives offers us the odi et amo of light comedy.......

Television

In front of the children Wendy Cope C hildren's misconceptions about tele- vision can be very charming. A friend of mine, when her son was three years old, showed him a......