26 SEPTEMBER 1998, page 59

Television

A sense of duty James Delingpole A gloomy play about a dead seagull. A long book about a woman who throws her- self under a train and an even longer one about war and peace......

Radio

Critics on critics Michael Vestey I have appeared in Private Eye only once, as far as I know. It was in the late Sixties when I worked for the Sunday Express and before I joined......