The Spectator's Arts Round-up)
Television
Omnibus: Humphrey Lyttelton and our contributor, Benny Green, trace the life of the Glenn Miller Orchestra, and the 'sound' is recreated by the Syd Lawrence band, in a programme called Instant Nostalgia; BBC 1, Sunday, December 5.
Man Alive: A clutch of Britain's women's magazine editors and publishers come to the studios to face the question, 'Who's Afraid of Helen Gurley Brown?' — as the author of Sex and the Single Girl prepares the launch of a British edition of the American magazine, Cosmopolitan; BBC 2, Wednesday, December 8.
A Man Called Willy Brandt: Second showing of the programme in which the West German Chancellor talks to Lord Chalfont about his life and times; on the eve of the Nobel Peace Prize award to Herr Brandt; BBC 1, Thursday, December 9.
Theatre
Opening in London: Charley's Aunt, the old Brandon Thomas farce, with Tom Courtenay as the transvestite undergraduate, at the Apollo, December 6; The Good-Natured Man, Oliver Goldsmith's other comedy, joins the National Theatre repertory at the Old Vic, December 9 (previews December 7 & 8).
Last chances to see: Kean, with Alan Badel flamboyantly fleshing-out the DumasSartre portrait of the English actor, closes at the Globe, December 11; Paul Scofield winds up his stint with the National Theatre when The Rules of the Game finishes at the New on December 7; the Royal Shakespeare Company's nineweek season at The Place ends next week with the final performances of Occupations December 7, Miss Julie December 9 and Subject to Fits December 11.
Radio/Opera
Colin Davis's first new production as music director of the Royal Opera, The Marriage of Figaro, opened at Covent Garden this week. There are subsequent
.. performances there on December 4, 7, 10, 13, 17, 20 and 23, and the first of ) these is being broadcast on Radio 3. Gerraint Evans plays the title role, and the cast also includes Kin i Te Kanawa, Reri Grist, Patricia Kern and John Lanigan.
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