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.

by Bernard Kops
Starring Hugh Burden
with Margery Mason, Sheila Reid, Ray Brooks and Alan MacNaughtan
(Sheila Reid is a National Theatre player)

What happened to Brian Hooper? Where did his life go? This is what bothers him and sets his mind racing through fantasies of might-have-been mixed up with the disappointing truth. But you can't help liking him, because despite everything Brian Hooper has to laugh.

"I lived completely isolated from the world as if in a lighthouse"
"His music has an immediate and marvellous effect" (Honegger)
"My glory - that will be" (Martinu Roussel)

A dramatic portrait of the Czech composer who for the first six years of his life never left the old clock-tower of Policka in which he was born.
This film reconstruction of his life was shot on authentic locations in Czechoslovakia, Paris, and New York.
Commentary by Anthony Burgess.
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Each morning Fritz Philips gets on his bicycle and goes to work. He is boss of the vast Dutch electronics company. Philips of Eindhoven, and one of the most powerful businessmen in Europe. Sixty miles away in Brussels, M. Dubois Pelerin, President of the Societe Generale de Banque of Belgium, heads a financial institution which plays a key part in the industrial growth of the Low Countries. Tonight's programme looks at these two men and the empires they control.
(Colour)

A duel of words and wit between Jimmy Edwards with Hy Hazell, Michael Parkinson and Patrick Campbell with Katie Boyle, Sir Learie Constantine.
Referee, Peter Wheeler
(Hy Hazell is appearing in "Charlie Girl" at the Adelphi Theatre, London)
(Colour)

rounds off the week of television.
Criticism, Discussion, Diversion with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley and tonight's guests also Philip Jenkinson with more film requests.
Letters to Philip Jenkinson should be addressed c/o Late Night Line-Up, [address removed]
(Colour)