6 SEPTEMBER 1986, page 29

Television

Dance and drama Wendy Cope T he programmes have got better this week, a mixed blessing from my point of view, because now there is even more that I feel I ought to watch.......

Opera

11 trovatore (Coliseum) Hideous corruption Rodney Milnes P ottering contentedly, as one does, down the leafy lanes that lead to old age the only disadvantage of which, I should......