A series of outstanding and memorable programmes to mark 40 years of BBCtv
Tyger tyger burning bright In the forests of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry
(WILLIAM BLAKE 1757-1827)
An enquiry into the power of a familiar poem.
This Omnibus film sets out to show how and why Blake's short poem, one of the most famous in the English language, captures the imagination and stays in the mind of adults and children alike. This was one of the first programmes to show how the excitement of words could be seen on television. Among those taking part are Kathleen Raine Robert Graves
Richard Hoggart Stuart Hall
Adrian Mitchell and pupils and teachers from ST CHRISTOPHER SCHOOL, LETCHWORTH
THE MANCHESTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL
DUDDESTON MANOR SCHOOL, BIRMINGHAM
PEACOCK STREET INFANTS SCHOOL, MANCHESTER
Film editor TONY WOOLLARD Written and produced by CHRISTOPHER BURSTALL. and at 9.0
Festival 40:
Morning in the Streets
This impression of life and opinion in the back streets of a Northern city in the morning was one of the most famous and influential of all television documentaries and won the Italia Prize.
Film cameraman Roy HARRIS Film editor DONALD JAMES
Directors DENIS MITCHELL and ROY HARRIS