John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Connie Booth and Andrew Sachs star in two BBC TV episodes, 'The Rat' and 'The Builders'. In 'The Rat', the hotel faces closure due to lack of cleanliness – and two dead ‘pig-ee-ons’ in the watertank. Basil, Sybil and the staff have until the health inspector returns tomorrow to sort out all the problems. First, Basil has...
A Suitable Boy is Vikram Seth's epic love story set in India. Funny and tragic, with engaging, brilliantly observed characters, it is as close as you can get to Dickens for the twentieth century. The story unfolds through four middle class families - the Mehras, Kappoors, Khans and Chatterjis. Lata Mehra, a university student, is under pressure from...