Introduced by Christopher Cook ANTONY Hopkins reviews some jolly music for the jolly season: The Merry Widow at the London Coliseum, produced by John Cox , and The Gondoliers in the D'Oyly Carte season at Sadler's Wells.
MARGARET LANE , biographer of Beatrix Potter, goes to an. exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum which shows how the nature studies of a solitary child led to Peter Rabbit and The Tailor oj
Gloucester.
BRIAN GEAR reports on Brunei, a Southampton school play so good it transferred to the Bristol Old Vic.
Producer PATRICIA BRENT