25 SEPTEMBER 1999, page 75

Radio

Happy families Michael Vestey adio can be a marvellous medium for dramatising diaries and letters and so it proved last week in Radio Four's Afternoon Play — Dear Gerald......

Music

Proms charisma Robin Holloway W ith the second half of this summer's Proms lustre and charisma were restored. It was a season rich above all in late- Romantic Austro-German......