Cultural notes

( Accident, directed by Joseph Losey )

( Possession, by A.S. Byatt )

Honours list observations

Congratulations all: especially to Sir Christopher Lee, of course, and to Mrs Anderson my goddaughter's head teacher, who becomes an OBE; as does Peter Dickinson, author of the Changes trilogy whose television adaptation I watched avidly as a five-year-old.

ETA: Robin Myers, the bibliographic historian, gets an MBE, which is well-deserved.