17 SEPTEMBER 1988, page 54

Television

Give us a break Wendy Cope T ime gathers speed as the years go by. Films I was still vaguely intending to see at the cinema are shown on television and turn out to be four or......

Sale-rooms

Provincial pleasures Peter Watson T he barons of Bond Street, who love nothing so much as a little retsina- or rioja-induced relaxation throughout the entire month of August,......