The best of the week's newsfilm from all over the world, together with other subjects of interest. For the deaf and hard of hearing a commentary appears visually
Presenter, Michael De Morgan with Ruth Leeds
followed by The Weather
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A series of films from all over the world about our astonishing planet and the creatures that live on it.
The wildlife of Trinidad is as colourful and exciting as the calypso island itself. The Swedish film-maker Jan Lindblad spent over a year there filming quaint, gorgeous, and sinister creatures.
As well as the exotically plum-aged birds of the dense rain forest of the north, there are such attractive arboreal creatures as the tree porcupine and the silky ant eater. Danger threatens from the monsters in the marshes, the giant anacondas that lurk in the pools waiting to grab a victim and pull it-or him-underwater to drown. For light relief there are the fiddler crabs, dementedly waving their huge claws.
A great variety of birds breed in enormous colonies in the mangrove swamps. All are beautiful but none is as spectacular as the scarlet ibis, which, with its flame-coloured plumage, must rank as one of the seven wonders of the bird world.
Poachers after their feathers drove them out of haunts on the coasts of South America, and even in this refuge, the Trinidad Caroni swamp, they are not safe from the hunters' guns.
From the South and West
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An opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Arrigo Boito
English translation by Eric Crozier
with Richard Cassilly, Peter Glossop, Teresa Stratas
The action takes place in Othello's fortress on the island of Cyprus.
(David Hillman appears by arrangement with Sadler's Wells Opera; Charles Mackerras by arrangement with Hamburg State Opera)
There will be an interval of three minutes at 9.25*
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A series of programmes of lunacy and laughter starring, as your hosts, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin featuring a regular company of crazy characters and a bewildering array of guests.
(Colour)
(Produced for N.B.C)
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Late Night Line-Up's weekly look at the cinema with stars - previews - and a dig into the past
Introduced by Tony Bilbow with Philip Jenkinson
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