The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from August 2001:
At 42, Richard Davis was a mild-mannered virgin. Then he was prescribed experimental drugs for a benign tumour. They turned him into a sex maniac, ruining his multi-million pound business and making him a national laughing stock. Now, for the first time, he tells his story
Aug 05, 2001; ... `I was like a child let loose in a sweet shop, like a rampantLothario, an ageing playboy with a perma-tan, cavorting in clubsamong the twentysomethings. I had the chunky gold chains, the pounds250,000 Bentley, the designer flared suits, the pounds 1,000 bottlesof vintage Krug, the call ...
My new life in the shadows Sue Townsend, whose eye for detail has delighted her readers, can no longer see her own words. Here the author explains how she copes with her blindness
Aug 05, 2001; ... The card came in the post in a cheap brown envelope. I didn'topen it for a few days; it looked like the newsagent's bill. When Ifinally opened it, I found a pink laminated card inside. It said:"This is to certify that Mrs Susan Townsend has been certified aseligible for registration as a ...
Return of the conquering soldier
Aug 05, 2001; ... I am writing this on the balcony of a small stone cottage inUmbria. The cottage is one of a group of six, overlooked by amedieval tower. We have made it into a temporary community offriends, each family with its own cottage and a common building formeals. My daughter, who organised it, ...
A luvvie lunch with Dame Diana Diana Rigg, at 63, remains the most delectable of dining companions. She joins Gyles Brandreth at a table for two to talk about her latest play - but, as she says, 'I'd rather gossip'
Aug 05, 2001; ... The scene is a table set for two in the Mezzanine Restaurant atthe Royal National Theatre on the South Bank. It is one o'clock andthe celebrated actress Dame Diana Rigg has taken a break fromrehearsals to have lunch with a middle-aged journalist who arrives,breathless, flustered, and ...
Carry on caravanning He had to dice with death on the road and twice nearly killed his family, but Jeremy Clarke, who normally hates caravans, was determined to discover why campers are so happy
Aug 05, 2001; ... In south Devon, where I come from, we hate caravans. Really hatethem. Every August they come down in their hundreds with the soleintention, apparently, of blocking the lanes and bringing the placeto a standstill. Confront one in a lane and, instead of offering toreverse, the driver - who ...
Incorruptibly plastic Professor von Hagens (below) preserves bodies and displays them as 'anatomy art'. His show is due to be seen here, but only if HM's Inspector of Anatomy agrees. The master plastinator talks to Nicholas Glass
Aug 05, 2001; ... He has a pale, spectral face and bulging shifty eyes. In hisblack hat and leather jerkin, he moves like a preying mantis. Wouldyou leave your body to Professor Gunther von Hagens to skin, cure,dissect, preserve with plastic and display in a travelling anatomyshow? Some 4,000 ...
A magical magnetic maestro Ravi Shankar had a powerful influence on Sixties rock music, but he hated its tune-in, drop-out culture. The sitar virtuoso talks to David Thomas about fatherhood, Donald Duck and the musical way to God
Aug 05, 2001; ... There's a brand-new Apple PowerBook on the desk, in case RaviShankar wants to write, or watch one of his favourite DVDs. There'sa high-tech DAT tape-machine next to it, should he feel the urge torecord. Sting's secretary is calling up to say how much TrudieStyler (Mrs Sting) enjoyed his ...
Light shines on picture palace Art
Aug 05, 2001; ... Buckingham Palace Joseph Wolf Olly & Suzi Untamed Since 1993 London's summer holiday season has been transformed bythe opening of Buckingham Palace (until September 30), which thisyear includes the bonus of access to the garden and a display of 22watercolours, in ...
Commie cats v. capitalist canines Cinema
Aug 05, 2001; ... Cats & Dogs Final Fantasy Rush Hour 2 Gohatto It might be summertime, but the living in this week's films isfar from easy. A warlike and martial spirit has invaded the screen,taking us from a savage battle between cats and dogs to ruthlesssparring among ...
A long, tender and foreign farewell Ballet
Aug 05, 2001; ... The Royal Ballet's Swan Lake, Coppelia and Mixed Bill Everyone used to tease the "English" National Ballet for beingnothing of the sort, but the dearth of world-class British dancershas made Anthony Dowell's Royal Ballet every bit as international.Dowell himself was ...
Eco-music is too green for maturity Music
Aug 05, 2001; ... Proms premieres La Boheme at Clonter Opera Apart from Sir John Tavener and Arvo Part, not many composerstoday are likely to write biblical oratorios. Today's favouritecautionary tale is what we are doing to Earth, never mind Heaven, soit is not surprising that ...
The jackboot under the toga Theatre
Aug 05, 2001; ... Julius Caesar Where's Charley? The Shagaround There are Shakespearean productions that succeed in spite ofthemselves. The director's fancy ideas get in the way, but the wordsgradually win through. The actors, or the better ones, can't helpshowing their mettle, the ...
Perhaps evil men in suits have a point Radio
Aug 05, 2001; ... In The Battle For Kyoto (Radio 4, Tuesday), we eavesdropped on aconfrontation between a ghastly German Jugend (probably with plaitedarmpit hair and a battered VW combi with "Atomkraft? Nein Danke!" onthe back) and an equally revolting pro-Bush young American (no doubtwith a red neck and ...
I am Alpha and you are saved Television
Aug 05, 2001; ... All week I have been pondering over the following remark, made bythe Reverend Nicky Gumbel, leader of the Alpha group, in GylesBrandreth's Review front last Sunday. "Just as crockery which is notdishwasherproof may crack if it is put in the machine," Gumbel said,"we were not designed for ...
When happiness is a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Nicholas Bagnall wonders whether twitchers are naturalists of great skill and dedication or merely nerds in love with birds
Aug 05, 2001; ... Birders: Tales of a Tribe by Mark Cocker Jonathan Cape, pounds 15.99, 230 pp pounds 13.99 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 YOU MUSTN'T call them bird-watchers. They are either birders (aname, I think, coined in the States) or twitchers, which is now anOK word, despite ...
The critic with a creed John Berger's insights make up for his polemics, says Martin Gayford
Aug 05, 2001; ... The Shape of a Pocket by John Berger Bloomsbury, pounds 16.99, 264 pp pounds 14.99 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 THERE ARE ART critics who just write about art, and others whoalso have something else in mind - a world view, a politicalprogramme, a moral crusade. Of ...
National malaise and national myths From 1940 to 1968 and beyond, France has shown itself to be a country of malleable loyalties and ethics, says Daniel Johnson
Aug 05, 2001; ... France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 by Julian Jackson Oxford, pounds 25, 660 pp pounds 23 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 The Game of War: The Life and Death of Guy Debord by Andrew Hussey Jonathan Cape, pounds 18.99, 420 pp pounds 16.99 ...
The literary life
Aug 05, 2001; ... A STARTER for 10. Which dramatist wrote The First Part of theContention? No? How about Richard Duke of York? All is True? Theanswer in each case is William Shakespeare. The plays are betterknown as Henry VI Part Two, Henry VI Part Three and Henry VIII. TheOxford Companion to Shakespeare, ...
A rake in tweed clothing Gerald Kaufman on a life of Trevor Howard, actor, roue and bon viveur
Aug 05, 2001; ... Trevor Howard: A Personal Biography by Terence Pettigrew Peter Owen, pounds 18.95, 279 pp pounds 16.95 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 TREVOR HOWARD died of drink. He was convicted three times fordrink-driving offences, and on one occasion was banned from ...
The writers who stayed at home David Robson enjoys the diversity of this book of Indian fiction
Aug 05, 2001; ... The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature ed by Amit Chaudhuri Picador, pounds 16.99, 638 pp pounds 14.99 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 THERE IS NOTHING publishers like more than unveiling the latestbrilliant new talent from India. If the public bites, and ...
Dante's peaks and troughs Jonathan Bate on a sure-footed guide to the changing fortunes of the author of The Divine Comedy
Aug 05, 2001; ... Dante by R. W. B. Lewis Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 12.99, 193 pp pounds 10.99 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 IN THE LATE 20th century, Australian literature came of age byreacting against the so-called "cultural cringe" of deference toEnglish traditions. Seven ...
Best sellers
Aug 05, 2001; ... Paperback non-fiction 1 Bad Blood: A Memoir, Lorna Sage (Fourth Estate, pounds 6.99).10,751. 2 A Child Called `It', Dave Pelzer (Orion, pounds 5.99). 10,249. 3 McCarthy's Bar, Pete McCarthy (Sceptre, pounds 6.99). 7,999. 4 Dr Atkins' New Diet Revolution, Robert C ....
Cambodia's big jungle secret Russell Davies considers the mysterious temples of Angkor Wat
Aug 05, 2001; ... The Civilisation of Angkor by Charles Higham Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 18.99, 192 pp pounds 16.99 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 THE YAK & YETI Hotel, Kathmandu, accepts all major credit cards.Timbuktu isn't even very far away. There are few place names leftwhich ...
Answers at the point of a chisel
Aug 05, 2001; ... The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart Bloomsbury, pounds 16.99, 248 pp pounds 14.99 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 JANE URQUHART's new novel is framed by two symmetrical journeysbetween the Old World and the New. The first is made in the middleof the 19th century by a ...
Not funny . . . but clever
Aug 05, 2001; ... The Dearly Departed by Elinor Lipman Fourth Estate, pounds 10, 269 pp pounds 9 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 WE SUPPOSEDLY live in an age of sophisticated marketing, yetliterary publicity is so often woefully misplaced. The latest novelby Elinor Lipman is a classic ...
Paperbacks
Aug 05, 2001; ... The Renaissance by Paul Johnson Phoenix Press, pounds 7.99 FIRST USED in the mid-19th century, the term "Renaissance" hasproved to be a convenient way of describing the period betweenmedieval times and the beginning of the modern age. Although he doesnot deny the ...
The intimacy of the grave This family saga that revolves around a cemetery is surprisingly upbeat, says Jessica Mann
Aug 05, 2001; ... Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier HarperCollins, pounds 12.99, 403 pp pounds 10.99 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 TRACY CHEVALIER 's previous book, Girl With a Pearl Earring, wasrightly lauded for its skilful writing, but it also attracted casualbuyers with an ...
Will that buy-to-let be a buy to regret? Amid housing boom frenzy, Ross Clark eyes a potential trigger for trouble
Aug 05, 2001; ... For the first time in living memory a building society last weekcalled the housing market "unsustainable". Admittedly, theNationwide was only talking about the rate of house-price increases -10.9 per cent over the past year - and says it still expects pricesto keep rising, albeit at a ...
Southern comfort by the sea In the second of our series on making the most of the coast, Caroline McGhie looks at the south of England
Aug 05, 2001; ... The property hot spot of the south coast is undoubtedly Brighton,now as fashionable and metropolitan as it was when the PrinceRegent, later George IV, built his exotic pavilion. Yet you haveonly to move a few miles either side of it to find more affordable seaside. Or slip round ...
Tarmac troubles Ask Jeff
Aug 05, 2001; ... Some time ago, together with several neighbours, I had my drivesurfaced with Tarmac by a company, now no longer in business. At thetime we were all happy with the result. However, the surface of theTarmac now appears to be crumbling where the edge meets thepavement. I spend ages each day ...
Loft living Ask Jeff
Aug 05, 2001; ... We are planning on converting the loft in our late Victorianhouse and have had several companies round to quote. All but onehave said that they will have to insert steel beams to support thefloor of the conversion. However, one company has said that we donot need steel beams as the ...
Lighten up Ask Jeff
Aug 05, 2001; ... What are the advantages and disadvantages of mains halogen andlow voltage halogen lamps?JK, Salisbury Jeff replies The main differences are cost. The low voltage lampsare cheaper, but you have the initial additional cost of a lowvoltage transformer. There is a wider variety of ...
Is your house glued together? On the level - Developers have set themselves a target of 'zero defects'
Aug 05, 2001; ... A concerned reader has sent me some photographs of new housesbeing built near his home. In fact, he is so concerned that he hassent not only pictures, but also - in a praiseworthy feat ofindustrial espionage - an off-cut of one of the floor joists. Theyare made of a composite material, ...
Fancy a nightcap at my module? One-bedroom city flats may be moving out of reach of potential buyers but, says Caroline McGhie, don't despair. The Krashpad is the ultimate in affordable single-room living
Aug 05, 2001; ... Stand by for a new product on the property market - the Krashpadis about to arrive. This single-space, transformable living unit,which claims to be the first of its kind in the world, is beingtried out in Manchester. It will allow buyers to live, eat, sleep,entertain and work in one ...
Theatre
Aug 05, 2001; ... Edinburgh's official theatrical menu would have been much poorerof late if it hadn't been for the Irish input, and it's anencouraging sign that one of the two productions which kick off thisyear's festival is a play by the much-admired Dublin dramatist TomMurphy, Too Late for Logic ...
Concerts
Aug 05, 2001; ... Usher Hall Week 1 (Aug 12-18). Tue 14, 8pm: German baritone Matthias Goerneand Alfred Brendel perform Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte andSchubert's Schwanengesang. Wed 15, 7.30pm: Sakari Oramo and the CBSOperform a programme conducted by Mahler in Hamburg in 1893: itincludes ...
Dance
Aug 05, 2001; ... Dance at Edinburgh is dominated once more by premier leagueAmerican companies. Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project(Playhouse, Aug 13-16) offers PASTForward: The Influence of thePostmoderns. The two-hour show celebrates the vibrant American dancescene of the Sixties and ...
Art
Aug 05, 2001; ... Rembrandt's Women Scottish National Gallery to Sep 2. Over 140works of which 28 are paintings (coming to the Royal Academy,London, Sep 22-Dec 16). The King over the Water: The Life of Prince James Francis EdwardStuart (1688-1766), Scottish National Portrait Gallery. The ...
Fringe
Aug 05, 2001; ... Tiny Dynamite Traverse One of Britain's finest young writers, AbiMorgan's new play is a love story told in a most unusual way. Today-Aug 24. Joan C too New York's Endurance Theatre give a modern andoriginal take on the Joan of Arc story. Today-Aug 26 Medea Assembly Last ...
Opera
Aug 05, 2001; ... Week 1: On stage Mozart's Die Zauberflote (Festival Theatre, Aug14, 16, 17) in the Aix Festival production by Stephane Braunschweig.Concert performances: Berlioz's Les Troyens (Aug 12, part 1, 18,part 2, Usher Hall) with the BBC Scottish SO and Festival Chorusconducted by Donald ...
Comedy
Aug 05, 2001; ... All shows run today to Aug 27 Priorite a Gauche Pleasance Dome Vair, vair amusant cod-Frenchpop duo whose sharp but affectionate observations - mostly aboutjust not getting it and being achingly unhip - explain why theChannel divides us. Daniel Kitson Pleasance Looks like an ...
Cinema
Aug 05, 2001; ... The Edinburgh Film Festival (the 55th) runs from Aug 11-25 andopens with the international premiere of Amelie, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Delicatessen). Audrey Tautou, a rising young Frenchactress, plays a Montmartre waitress who lives in a quirky fantasyworld of her own, and spends ...
Schroders raises unit trust fees
Aug 05, 2001; ... SCHRODERS, the fund manager, is increasing annual managementcharges on a number of unit trusts, despite mounting pressure fromthe Government to cut fees. It will raise the charges on equity funds from 1.25 to 1.5 percent on November 21. Funds affected include the popular ...
Barclays snubs small shareholders
Aug 05, 2001; ... BARCLAYS Bank has angered its 1m small shareholders with adecision to stop sending interim reports to private investors. More than 180 shareholders have already written to Sir PeterMiddleton, chairman of Barclays, to complain about the move. Alan Diamond, a Barclays ...
Stroud loses in Tessa case
Aug 05, 2001; ... THE Stroud & Swindon is refusing to pay compensation to Tessainvestors after the building society ombudsman decided in a testcase that it had acted unfairly. The ombudsman has ordered the society to pay back-dated interestpayments to the customer in the test case after ruling it ...
Fund managers plot launch of 'with-profits' lookalikes
Aug 05, 2001; ... FUND managers are planning to take advantage of the furore overwith-profits products by launching new unit trusts and Oeic fundsthat claim to mirror their advantages but are much easier tounderstand. First off the block is expected to be Foreign & Colonial, whichis planning to ...
Fixed rate mortgages set to come down Surprise cut in interest rates will reverse upward trend of long-term home loans
Aug 05, 2001; ... FIXED rate mortgages are set to fall in the next few months,following last week's surprise cut in interest rates. The price of five-year fixed-rates has been rising steadily overthe past few months in line with long-term interest rates. But theBank of England caught the City and ...
OmniSky closures spell more woe for Murdoch
Aug 05, 2001; ... LACHLAN Murdoch, the eldest son of Rupert Murdoch, has suffered afurther blow in his business career with the news that OmniSky, theUS technology group, has closed its European offices, shutting downthe joint venture it set up with News Corporation last year. Lachlan Murdoch, who ...
WestLB bids for BT fixed lines
Aug 05, 2001; ... WESTLB, the German investment bank, has approached BT with anpounds 18bn bid for its fixed telephone line operations. The bank, which specialises in structured finance and large buy-outs, made the offer several weeks ago in a meeting with PhilipHampton, BT's finance director. BT ...
Strong gives up on WorldCom
Aug 05, 2001; ... LIAM Strong, former chief executive of Sears, has abruptly quitas the head of the international operations of WorldCom, one of theworld's most dynamic telecoms groups. Strong was the man mostclosely associated with the decline of the Sears shoe manufacturingand retail empire, which ...
Whitbread prepares restaurant chains sale
Aug 05, 2001; ... WHITBREAD, the hotels and leisure group, is considering the saleof all its high street restaurants in an effort to focus on its moresuccessful operations. The company's financial advisers have contacted a number ofpotential bidders and offered them the businesses for around ...
Ford gears up for London listing World's second biggest carmaker targets the City in drive to woo European investors to flagging shares
Aug 05, 2001; ... THE Ford Motor Company, the world's second biggest carmanufacturer, is drawing up plans for a London stockmarket listing.The move is intended to bring fresh investment into the carmaker andto reflect the global nature of its business in the shareholdingstructure. Industry ...
On the contrary, Tomkins is a long-term prospect
Aug 05, 2001; ... I have to admit that in my teens among my pin-ups was GregHutchings, then the thirtysomething driving force behind Tomkins. This was strictly a healthy capitalist libido, you understand. Inthe mid-1980s, Hutchings' transformation of a sleepy fasteners-to-engineering group was raw ...
If we're not careful, there really will be a recession
Aug 05, 2001; ... DONNING my tin hat while huddling under the stairs last week, Ihappened to read in the newspaper on which I was squatting thatBritish consumers are splashing the cash - or more accuratelyflashing the plastic - without a care in the world. My first reaction was: are they mad? Don't ...
Life's expectancy
Aug 05, 2001; ... DEMAND is growing for Equitable Life to throw in the towel and gointo voluntary liquidation. Angry and disillusioned policyholders,still reeling from news that the value of their funds had beenslashed and declared bonuses withdrawn, are becoming increasinglyfearful there is worse to ...
Angus & Ross in talks
Aug 05, 2001 ... ANGUS & Ross, the junior mining company in the process of movingup from Ofex to Aim, is in talks with potential partners that couldlead to a bid for the company. Sources close to the company, which is exploring for the raremetal tantalum in Greenland, say discussions are at a very ...
LMF floats again
Aug 05, 2001 ... LONDON Mining Finance, the mining investment group launched twomonths ago, is to float its second acquisition vehicle on Ofex, thelightly regulated junior market, in as many months. Precious Metal Investments, a mineral resource company, is aimingto raise pounds 250,000 ...
Focus raises pounds 170m
Aug 05, 2001 ... FOCUS Do It All, the do-it-yourself chain backed by Duke StreetCapital, the private equity firm, has sold two high-yield bondsworth a total of pounds 170m to refinance borrowings on ...
Deutsche brings its bankers down to earth
Aug 05, 2001; ... HIGH-FLYING investment bankers at Deutsche Bank have beengrounded after Germany's largest bank launched a crack down on stafftravelling by plane. In a clear indication of the slowdown in investment banking,Deutsche has effectively banned staff from travelling for internalmeetings ...
Great Portland sells its shopping centres
Aug 05, 2001; ... GREAT Portland Estates, the pounds 600m property company chairedby Richard Peskin, is to quit the shopping centre market by sellingits remaining centres with a price tag of pounds 240m. The portfolio, which has been offered for sale to a small numberof mainly private property ...
Thorntons is sweet on a buy-out
Aug 05, 2001; ... THORNTONS, the chocolate retailer, is conducting a review of itsoptions which could include a bid by the management to take thecompany private. Peter Burdon, the chief executive, and his advisersare understood to have approached a range of City financiers andprivate equity firms in the ...
Stewart to chair Standard Life
Aug 05, 2001; ... SIR Brian Stewart, the chairman of Scottish & Newcastle, is tobecome chairman of Standard Life next year as part of a top-levelshake-up at the mutual life insurance group. The appointment wouldconfirm his place as one of Scotland's most powerful businessmen. Stewart's appointment ...
H2O Plus splashes out on UK stores
Aug 05, 2001; ... H2O Plus, the Chicago-based manufacturer and retailer of water-based skincare products, is poised to make waves in the UK cosmeticssector by opening a chain of 50 stores in direct competition withBoots and Body Shop. The group has hired Lunson Mitchenall, the property ...
Asda Property rallies against bid
Aug 05, 2001; ... ASDA Property is this weekend drawing up radical plans to breakitself up, liquidate its pounds 500m property portfolio and returnthe cash to shareholders as a defence against a renewed bid from itschairman. The company last week rejected a 280p a share bid from MannyDavidson, its ...
Put greedy advisers out of commission As two inquiries target the finance sharks, Emma Simon asks: just how much are you paying for your investments?
Aug 05, 2001; ... The knives are out for financial advisers who are more interestedin boosting their own income than that of their clients. Ron Sandler, the man in charge of the Treasury's review of mediumand long-term savings, made it crystal clear last week that one ofhis principal targets is the ...