25 SEPTEMBER 1999, page 76

Radio

Happy families Michael Vestey adio can be a marvellous medium for dramatising diaries and letters and so it proved last week in Radio Four's Afternoon Play — Dear Gerald......

Television

Our own fault Simon Hoggart T he BBC takes its regions very serious- ly, though this often means that, for no apparent reason, a programme or a series will be made in......

Motoring

Thinking big Alan Judd W as it Mr Norris, formerly a minister and latterly would-be mayor of London, whom I first read of as insisting that the three As of automotive luxury —......