7 DECEMBER 1996, page 67

Television

Moll flounders Simon Hoggart T he fashion for putting on the classics in anachronistic settings — Richard III as a 20th-century fascist, The Duchess of Malfl in a space station......

Radio

Losing its nerve Michael Vestey T his week's Radio Times tells me that Radio Lives, the biographical series, is 'por- traits of great names in radio and television' (my......