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Books

Not so much some programmes P. D. James HISTORY OF BROADCASTING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: COMPETITION 1955-1974 by Asa Briggs OUP, £45, pp. 1133 T his fifth and final volume in Asa......

Inalienable Right

Happiness I pursue, of course, the same as you never netting it quite but figuring that's all right. What on earth would we do without it to pursue? Peter Kane Dufault......

It Is Better To Give Than To Be Beheaded

John Grigg ROYAL BOUNTY by Frank Prochaska Yale, £19.95, pp. 330 A healthy by-product of the monar- chy's difficulties in recent years has been the sudden and escalating growth......