for the deaf and hard of hearing
A look at the news of the week with film from all over the world and a commentary that can be seen as well as heard.
Talking with Robin Day
This week: Lord Gladwyn
by Alun Owen.
The second of three plays set in the North.
Starring Peter McEnery and June Barry
with Patrick McAlinney
(Repeat)
(Peter McEnery is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
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A fortnightly challenge to our ideas and understanding of life in the animal world.
Introduced by Dr. Desmond Morris.
Is the chimpanzee a fallen man? discussed by Dr. Adriaan Kortlandt, Zoological Laboratory, Amsterdam; Dr. John Napier, University of London; Dr. John Crook, University of Bristol; Dr. Vernon Reynolds, University of London.
From the West
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A new thriller in six parts by Margot Bennett.
Tom Masefield, suspended from police duty on charges of corruption and at odds with his fiancee Tessa over his friendship with a young girl, returns to his flat to find a stranger who offers him £10,000 for a week's work.
A duel of words and wit between Robert Morley with Sarah Miles, Lord David Cecil and Frank Muir with Elizabeth Jane Howard, Kingsley Amis.
Referee, Robin Ray
Stay up a little longer with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Nicholas Tresilian, Joan Bakewell.
and watch
Plunder
A weekly raid on the archives of BBC television.
Tonight's edition includes:
Bertrand Russell
in an excerpt from Face to Face
Eileen Joyce
plays music by Granados
An excerpt from Buried Treasure
with Glyn Daniel and Sir Mortimer Wheeler.