7 DECEMBER 1985, page 52

Television

This England Peter Levi W eekends are supposed to be best, and on Sunday evenings there is nothing like a pleasantly deadening old film. Sun- day evening is the only time of the......

Opera

Faust (Coliseum) Fanciulla gone west Rodney Milnes T he Royal Opera management must have had an unpleasant time deciding which of their two revivals to scrap while the dispute......

High Life

High- Taki his is the time of year that New York mantelpieces begin to resemble my friend Charles Benson: groaning under the strain, stuffed to the gills, and about to collapse.......