Introduced by Melvyn Bragg and featuring:
Comedians by TREVOR GRIFFITHS
This new play opened to rave notices at the Nottingham Play-house at the end of February. Trevor Griffiths, one of Britain's foremost new playwrights, has written an uncompromising play about what makes audiences laugh: set in an evening class in Manchester where Eddie Waters, a retired comedian, gives instruction in comic theory and practice. The play is concerned with the pupils' dilemma when they have to decide whether to follow Waters' altruistic teaching or aim for something more straightforward and obvious.
Designed by JOHN GUNTER Director RICHARD EYRE
With Gun and Camera...
'The Real Thing' - an exhibition devoted to the history and re-discovery of British photography opens at the Hayward Gallery on 19 March.
The artistic and documentary aspects of photography aroused furious controversy in the 1880s. This film looks at one photographer who was at the centre of the argument - Dr P. H. Emerson, whose photographic studies of life and landscapes around the Norfolk Broads are some of the most beautiful and evocative of Victorian photographs.
A Session at Caherlistrane
The West of Ireland has kept its traditional music, songs and some of its stories. Tonight's film looks at a session unique to Irish music - a houseparty, in which folk musicians play the way they used to - for love ...
Directors BEN REA (Comedians) TRISTRAM POWELL (With Gun and Camera) NIGEL WILLIAMS (A Session at Caherlistrane)
Assistant editor TONY CASH Editor BILL MORTON