18 OCTOBER 1997, page 78

Radio

Grand old men Michael Vestey A autumn gives way to winter and the owls return with their comforting pleas to each other in the thinning trees outside my window, so do old men......

Television

Too silly for words James Delingpole F or some annoying reason, most of the programmes I want to review seem to come up when it's Simon Hoggares week. It hap- pened a couple of......