... home thinking, or even, perhaps, a little disturbed. Jungr has little dialogue of her own to offer, allowing the material to speak for itself, although she does warn us at the beginning of events that we are not in for an easy ride and she is right. Even ...

... Fergusson, who may have inherited Hylda Baker's comic talent but certainly not her timing when it comes to after- dinner speaking. Hers was an overiong set but John Inman mer cifully rescued the situation with a very funny set of gags, in keeping with ...

... alone among major jazz performers in managing to limit himself to a very select roster of concert engagements. Although he speaks fondly of club gigs, like those he enjoyed at Ronnie Scott's, that was way back in tne past, mese days, he opts for more ...

... we must have missed out on, and yet it was his right to make such a decision. But Shaw is not a man to pass up a chance to speak his mind, especially about how the general public never really appreciated his best bands anyway. With such a superior attitude ...

... the instruments tightens up what could become pretty ragged, given the sheer pace with which everything hap pens, musically speaking, on stage. The set also included an equally energetic rendition of the recently re-hashed Eddy Grant composition Baby Come ...

... Birmingham for R2, Saturday, June 20) was an excellent profile, with the late musician's col leagues, family and friends speaking candidly, as well as with respect, affection, and great sadness. The programme's presenter, musician Danny Thompson, shared ...

... Peter King's interview with Chan Parker in A Ufe with Bird (R4, Saturday, July 4) turned out to be extremely revealing. Speaking from her home in the French countryside, it was wonderful to hear one-time Cotton Club dancer Chan offer amusing and moving ...

... Berkeley has not always been my favourite inter viewer, but on the whole he is excellent in his role here, and continues to speak to an impres sive line-up of interesting guests in the series. Presenters unafraid of intelligent discussion need to be treasured ...

... Company's double- bill by Niall Moore searingly probes urban Irish marital and family crises in vivid style. In Relatively Speaking, rising Limerick lawyer Joe and ex-waitress wife Mary steadily drift apart. Football-crazy, he neglects his chil dren. Both ...

... a spumed lover who will not leave his ex alone, walk about as if he is on remote control? And why does lounge lizard Dave speak in a slow firnnp? I fin nnt have the answers. Andrew Aldridge ...

... nephew does all the talking. He has arrived, having been told his aunt is dying, and installs himself for the death, so to speak, only to find that he is in for a long wait. So he has to content himself with cunning devices to hasten her demise, while ...

... courted a young and trendy image, not just super ficially, but in the music he has embraced as well. In the same vein, he speaks in what he must assume is a hip way. No one must even mention his Christian name in relation to Kennedy and the Violin (Howlett ...