6 OCTOBER 2001, page 81

Television

Blood, mud and bullets Simon Hoggart S teven Spielherg's Band of Brothers (BBC 2) has already been criticised for implying that the Americans won D-Day single-handed. People......

Radio

Perilous pleasures Michael Vestey I have never read Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, first published in 1822 and still in print. I find books about......