30 AUGUST 1997, page 36

Radio

Lies, damned lies . . . Michael Vestey W henever I reported on politics for the BBC I always liked to think that politi- cians were intrinsically decent people who in order to......

Television

Mumbo- Simon Hoggart I t's been a bad week for the paranormal on television, I'm pleased to say. Dreadful programmes such as Beyond Belief — char- latans claiming superhuman......