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Opera

Sweeney Todd (Opera North, Leeds) Le Nozze di Figaro (Royal Opera, Shaftesbury Theatre) Gruesome pleasure Michael Tanner W holly unfamiliar with Sweeney Todd, or indeed any of......

Radio

Moving times Michael Vestey W hy are radio people mesmerised by television? The size of the audience, per- haps; the feeling that if television perform- ers present radio......