... Hell-tale update BY MOIRA PETTY When TV has themed nights, it is all low-brow culture viewed with the regulatory post-modem irony. How liberating for those working in radio drama that they can, without blushing, take their cue from culture with a capital C. And how dangerous An updated version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is an undertaking, especially as 2000 Tales (R4, from Monday, ...

... Social division merits derision By MOIRA PETTY Larita Whittaker is a heroine after my own heart. The catalyst of Noel Coward's Easy Virtue (Catherine Bailey Ltd for R3, Sunday, December 26) preferred to read Marcel Proust than practise her tennis, proclaiming: I don't think the ends will justify the means. I wish I had wriggled out of school sports lessons with such elegance. Coward was ...