6 NOVEMBER 1999, page 75

Radio

Big heads Michael Vestey T here is something absurd and nerd- like about Mensa, the high-IQ society, a view confirmed when I heard one of its members on Radio Four last week in......

Television

Too many cooks . . . Simon Hoggart G ary Rhodes is back, on the front cover of the Radio Times, with a series called New British Classics (BBC 1), which sounds like those......

Not Motoring

Terrible lessons Gavin Stamp A though millions of words — both well- and ill-informed, objective and preju- diced — have already been written on the subject, I must discuss the......