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Summer Review

on BBC Two England

The last of seven programmes in which Summer Review offers a repeat of the best work done in Review during the past season.

Anthony Rossiter paints and writes in a Somerset farmhouse. His inspiration is the beauty of the countryside and the simple things around him. But there is a darker side, when his world becomes a 'landscape of fear,' and he swings uncontrollably from an intense joy and vision to periods of despair and madness: his autobiography is called The Pendulum. In this film he retraces some of his experiences and describes their impact on his work.

W.H. Auden reads three of his own poems.

The Elizabethan Image
Portraits of any age reveal something of the sitters' own moods and attitudes.
To a selection of paintings from the highly successful exhibition held earlier this year at the Tate Gallery, Dr Roy Strong, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, added another dimension: the comments of the Elizabethans themselves.

Contributors

Subject (Anthony Rossiter):
Anthony Rossiter
Director (Anthony Rossiter):
Leslie Megahey
Poet/Reader:
W.H. Auden
Presenter (The Elizabethan Image):
Dr Roy Strong
Director (The Elizabethan Image):
Anne James
Producer:
Peter Adam
Producer:
Darrol Blake
Editor:
James Mossman

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