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After The Lights Go Down

Jonathan Cecil THE DAILY TELEGRAPH THIRD BOOK OF OBITUARIES: ENTERTAINERS edited by Hugh Massingberd Macmillan, £15.99, pp. 340 I n 1921 a comedian called Alfred Lester —......

Does Your End Justify Your Genes?

Andrew Brown LIFELINES by Steven Rose Allen Lane, £20, pp. 335 W here once people believed in Destiny or a God that shaped their ends, they now believe in genes. In Penelope......