7 DECEMBER 1996, page 54

Christmas Funnies

Richard Ingrams T here have been so many TV 'spin- offs' by way of comic books that I am sur- prised the BBC hasn't yet produced The Michael Fish Book of Weather Forecasts with......

Variations On A Theme Of Death

Michael Scott TCHAIKOVSKY'S LAST DAYS by Alexander Poznansky OUP, £20, pp. 254 W hen a famous personality dies sud- denly from natural causes before his time, there are always......