11 AUGUST 1979, page 23

Opera

Flying start 'Rodney Miines Lucia di Lammermoor (Buxton Festival) The opening of the first post-war Buxton Pestival (Lilian Baylis, as always, got there first) was assailed by......

Television

More deadly Richard ingrams 1 had hoped that recent strikes in Independent Television would consign to oblivion certain best-forgotten programmes, but it was not to be. LWT......