7 NOVEMBER 1970, page 32

Television

Evolution Patrick Skene CATLING Pets and Vets (Bac 2) is a sensible, straight- forward, informative series on domestic animals and the people who care for them. As pets in this......

Opera

Spry old timers RODNEY MILNES There can scarcely be two hardier perennials in the opera repertoire than The Marriage of Figaro and La Boheme, and the fact that both make a......

Ballet

Noble creatures CLEMENT CRISP When Sir Frederick Ashton surveys the Royal Ballet he must see a group of beings whom he, like Viganei's Prometheus, 'civil- ised . . . by giving......

Music

Voice of the past GILLIAN WIDDICOMBE How mediaeval man would disport himself in mirth at the sober attention we pay his music nowadays. How he would envy us, too, being able to......