A programme for children at home.
Storyteller this week, Eileen Colwell
(to 11.30)
Including the latest news
Three programmes which set out to examine different aspects of the role played by the artist in society during a thousand years of European civilisation.
Introduced by Ronald Fletcher, Professor of Sociology, University of York.
Contributors include: Anthony Burgess on The Novelist Today
with the recorded voices of Janette Richer, Drew Russell, Tony Bronte, John Woodnutt.
Alan Ridout on Composing To Commission
with Members of the Guildford Cathedral Choir Choir-Master, Barry Rose and Donald Francke (baritone), Noel Clarke (piano).
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith on The Cinema as a Social Force
with excerpts from Michelangelo Antonioni's "L'Avventura".
Excerpt from "The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot spoken by Joyce Hemson.
A series of eight programmes which examine the links between mind and body in the light of modern psychiatric knowledge and practice.
What do we know about the child in its earliest years? How big a part does heredity play?
Introduced by The Director of the Department of Psychological Medicine, Guy's Hospital and by The Physician in Charge of the Department of Child Psychiatry, Guy's Hospital.
Written and produced by Colin Nears.
A series of four programmes on the younger generation of filmmakers in France.
Introduced by Olivier Todd.
"I have tried to make films that could, in a sense, be compared to a work of literature; films which would give the spectator imaginative freedom in the way that the reader of a novel is free to use his own imagination... the film would hold his attention, yet his imagination would be allowed its own freedom to act, to weave itself in and around the images on the screen".
featuring Paul Desmond (alto saxophone), Eugene Wright (bass), Joe Morello (drums).
Introduced by Steve Race.
This programme is presented by arrangement with Harold Davison
and a look at tomorrow