23 MAY 1969, page 9

Golden Bore

THE PRESS BILL GRUNDY Although I had never actually met him, I somehow did not much like Mr John Osborne, the playwright. I have, in the past, -thought up many possible......

Play Time

TELEVISION STUART HOOD There was a time when the Independent Tele- vision schedules used to include a quota of ninety-minute plays. Ninety minutes was natur- ally a conventional......