20 JANUARY 1973, page 17

Television

Thank the lords Clive Gammon Thank God (as Mr Peter Thompson, a spokesman for the Festival of Light, said this week) for men like Ross McWhirter, for on Tuesday, he saved me......

Cinema

Decline and fall Christopher Hudson Savages (' AA ' Curzon) is a curiosity. It is one of those rare films which seem to be outside every tradition except that of individual......

Will Waspe

The Observer's professorial theatre critic, Robert Brustein from Yale, has been carrysing on an extraordinary verbal battle with the National Theatre's Michael Blakemore over......