21 OCTOBER 1995, page 62

High Life

A tragic tale Ti aki I first set eyes on Lady Sarah Curzon in Silverstone, during the British Grand Prix sometime in the late Sixties. she was the quintessential English rose,......

Not Motoring

A certain triumph Gavin Stamp I n the park next to the Saratov (now Paveletsky) station in Moscow is a recon- dite little museum. Constructed in 1938, it houses the train that......

Television

Going global Ian Hislop T he only television I watched this week was while killing time in a hotel room. For a couple of hours during which I could eas- ily have read a book or......