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.
A serial in six parts by Peter O'Donnell.
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Four programmes exploring the mysterious second life each of us lives in sleep.
It is hardly worth trying to understand our dreams until we have found out all we can about where they come from, what triggers them off - in fact, how they work. Scientists are turning up new clues.
Introduced and devised by Norman MacKenzie from his book Dreams and Dreaming.
Two of the world's greatest laughter-makers.
A Hal Roach film
A review of the sciences.
Introduced by Colin Riach.
Change and Decay
Europe's heritage of pictures, statues, and buildings is being destroyed at a frightening rate by atmospheric pollution, but an American scientist has just invented a method of preserving limestone which conservationists hope will change the situation radically.
With Dr. Seymour Z. Lewin of the New York Institute of Fine Arts; Dr. H.J. Plenderleith, Director of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property; John Papaioannou, Architect
Meteorite Mystery
In 1908 a vast explosion shook the Tungus district of Siberia: was it due to the biggest meteorite ever to hit the earth, or something odder? The Russians, after sending out many expeditions, have just released a filmed report.
by Rosemary Anne Sisson.
With Dorothy Tutin as Queen Katherine
and Derek Godfrey, Jeremy Brett
(Nicholas Selby and Charles Thomas are members of the Royal Shakespeare Company; William Hobbs is fight director to the National Theatre)
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Stay up a little longer with Denis Tuohy, Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean.