15 MARCH 1986, page 40

Gardens

Coming down in the world Ursula Buchan L ike displaced Russian noblemen driv- ing Parisian taxis to pay the rent after 1917, magnolias cannot quite hide their sense of innate......

Television

Freaks and subversives Alexander Chancellor I have seen only the first and the last in Channel 4's My Britain series. The first had an American pop music impresario called Miles......

High Life

Play it again Meryl Taki Gstaad In F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story BabY - Ion Revisited, the hero, Charlie Wales' returns to Paris, the city of his youth, afte r a long......