'It's only got four chords.' Tomorrow Daly plays golf, his first appearance since being suspended for four months on the US Tour. MC Fearless sits on the sofa with his microphone and can of soft drink, mixing favourable comments on the music - 'it's absolutely rough' or 'shot like this could never ever miss' - with observations about the niceness of the weather or the desirability of being in the garden, and occasional bursts of staccato rhyming. Now we have a classy line-up of voice-overs - Donald Sinden (as a tailor), Melvyn Bragg (as himself), Dame Judi Dench (reading a fairy story) and I rewrote bits of the play around them.The writer is involved from the earliest days. ANTONIA BIRD seems to suggest that women directors will simply replace male sex and violence with female sex and violence If that is the case, women will have failed. With less than 2,000 miles to go, Nuclear Electric's skipper, John Chittenden, yesterday estimated his arrival day in Hobart as 6 January.

'Hitherto, if an administration reached a certain level of incompetence or even of ill-luck, they fell. But I see opening as an option for the future and certainly for next winter's tour of the West Indies.'While a failure to play spin is hardly the basis for a career as an opener the idea has some merit, especially for next winter. The Jews of Greece passed through Novska to the Nazi death camps, so too did many thousands of Serb children abducted by the Croatian Ustashe in 1942. A study of start-up costs for new ethical drugs in 1989 showed the average cost at dollars 231m ( pounds 161m).But Boots' claim that it is big enough, and that it has enough alternative drugs in the development pipeline to offset the disaster, is more debatable.Not one of its prescription drugs is under patent in the UK.