30 AUGUST 1975, page 5

A Spectator's Notebook

My Wednesday evenings for some time ahead are made; for the BBC, in its collective wisdom, has decided to re-run ORTF's Les Rois Maud its ('The Accursed Kings'), which tells of......

The Shuttle

(with apologies to Alfred, Lord Tennyson) I come from haunts of stars and stripes, I make a sudden scuttle Between two most demanding types As back and forth I shuttle. I steal......