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Hey, Big Spender

Patrick Boyle HEY MR PRODUCER by Sheridan Morley and Ruth Leo Weidenfeld, £25, pp. 192 I love musicals. Even the bad ones inspired moments or something that m the evening......

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Our Lost Legacy

Stephen Logan AN INTELLIGENT PERSON'S GUIDE TO MODERN CULTURE by Roger Scruton Duckworth, £14.95, pp. 152 R oger Scruton's career as a philoso- pher has prepared him for being a......