Athol Fugard
Introduced by Melvyn Bragg
From Port Elizabeth on the Eastern Cape comes South Africa's finest playwright, ATHOL FUGARD-writer, actor and director of extraordinary talent and dedication. On his recent visit to London, Athol Fugard was interviewed by Melvyn Bragg and tonight's programme brings together extracts from his most important plays to give a portrait of this formidable man of the theatre. Hello and Goodbye with JANET SUZMAN and BEN KINGSLEY
The Blood Knot with NIALL BUGGY and ALTON KUMALO (directed for the theatre by PETER STEVENSON )
. Boesman and Lena
With YVONNE BRYCELAND andATHOL FUGARD
(directed for the cinema by ROSS DEVENISH )
Sizwe Bansi is Dead and The Island with JOHN KANI andWINSTON NTSHONI
Statements After An Arrest Under the Immorality Act with YVONNE BRYCELAND , BEN KINGSLEY and WILSON DUNSTER
Film cameramen KEN WESTBURY
BILL MATTHEWS , PETER CHAPMAN
Film editors
MARTIN WENTERTON , BRYAN DAY
Producer TRISTRAM POWELL
Assistant editor TONY STAVEACRt
Editor BILL MORTON