I have a wonderful set (by Simon Higlett) in which all the angles are askew because there's something wrong about the principal characters - they're excessively handsome, but corrupt.When, as a director, one is given a piece of work to do - whether it's Hamlet or A Month in the Country or Rope - one's mind waits for some kind of spark. People watched and listened in bars, in their homes, in airports. If you've ever fancied yourself as the Princess of Wales, the Cafe Rouge will provide the sort of unthreatening cosmopolitan background you need. But my parents are keeping them.'Danny's parents are both musicians. In America, large companies closely identify with the cities in which they are based.

Sir: Richard Dowden's article ('There is still time to save lives in Africa', 2 July) is correct and timely. After the war he set out for Paris but could not afford the journey and found himself in Berlin instead. That pleasant Rick Parry, who seems to be the Premier League's sole administrator, spokesman and devotee, and the people from an American-founded promotions company are obviously trying awfully hard. A policy taken out from an insurance company, timed to mature when the mortgage expires, is used to pay off the capital. Instead he is committed to a build-up tailored to the more technically adept Ian Rush, who is 31 in a month's time and injured again.

But the judges all agreed that it was almost certainly the work of more than one writer.'There is nothing in the rules against multiple authorship of a novel,' says the citation. Sir: Your report of the substantial award by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board to the mother of a schizophrenic who attacked her (27 January) is opportune. The currency was protected by massive Bank of France intervention supported by the Bundesbank.'We have good economic results and absolute determination,' Mr Sapin said.In an interview with Reuters, he said the Bank of France had not had to intervene yesterday.Mr Sapin's remarks reflected widespread French irritation with Britain, stemming from its delay in ratifying Maastricht and reinforced by Hoover's decision last week to move jobs from Burgundy to Scotland.The 'accomplices' in France are politicians, mainly in the conservative opposition, who want the franc de-coupled from the mark and allowed to float.Meanwhile, Ireland blamed her EC partners for inadequate support, a charge that follows its attack on Britain for reducing base rates, weakening the pound and triggering pressure on the punt.With the reverberations of Saturday's 10 per cent devaluation of the Irish currency, the largest single devaluation in EC history, still echoing around nervous markets, Jacques Delors, the EC Commission President, called for an extraordinary April meeting of the Group of Seven. In the run-up to the elections in April last year, when the legislation was applied for the first time, the number of his patients increased by 40 per cent.Some MPs reacted with a no- holds-barred attitude, others with depressions, phobias, anxiety crises.