Mr Al-Khapoun's Christmas Quiz, 1999: Clues.

1. The second speaker is Russian, and he is being watched.

2. One of the few to withstand scrutiny.

3. The writer is better known (perhaps) as a character in a work by somebody else.

4. And while you were reading that extract England have lost another wicket.

5. The author is not French, and football wasn't his game.

6. The speaker is reading from a Viennese newspaper.

7. You might associate the writer with Portugal.

8. Not by a musician.

9. By a musician.

10. The writer has a still more famous sibling.