24 OCTOBER 1981, page 27

Television

Resistible Richard In grams When I first read Brideshead Revisited I was a schoolboy and found the whole thing irresistible, especially its pictures of Oxford life; later when I......

High Life

Means and ends Taki According to Ernest Hemingway there are two ways to murder a lion. One is to shoot him from a motor car, the other to shoot him at night from a platform or......

Low Life

Daily Jeffrey Bernard One of my more famous friends recently received a strange letter from a publishing house who intend to do a book based on the idea of the Sunday Times......