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The Turf

Hong Kong thrills Robin Oakley K nd friends might call it a robe, a kimono or a sort of Eastern dressing-gown. But the garment a team filming a BBC hol- iday programme in Hong......

High Life

Defying the gods Taki Rougemont hen on a dark and stormy night on the banks of Lake Geneva the great 18- year-old Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, she......