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
and Weather
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by Alan and Joan Root
Rain falling on the high, dry Chyulu Hills of Kenya filters through the lava soil until it emerges as cool, running springs at Mzima. Zebra and elephant visit the oasis to drink, but this unusual African portrait is more concerned with the animals that live at the springs.
It is a fascinating world in which frogs climb trees, birds swim, turtle and crocodile feed side by side, and the lumbering hippopotamus takes on a new grace in the unique underwater photography of Alan Root.
Commentary by Anthony Smith
(from BBC South and West)
(Colour)
An opera in three acts and a prologue derived from the poem of George Crabbe
Scene: The Borough, a small fishing town on the East Coast about 1830.
Prologue: a Court Room in the Moot Hall.
Act 1, Scene 1: The Borough, a few days later
Scene 2: inside The Boar, the same evening
9.8* Interval of about 4 minutes
Act 2, Scene 1: The Borough, some weeks later
Scene 2: Grimes's hut
Children from Leiston Modern School
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Leader John Georgiadis
Conducted by Benjamin Britten
The moving and powerful tragedy of an East Anglian fisherman, whose uncompromising independence leads to disaster.
(Elizabeth Bainbridge appears by arrangement with the General Administrator, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Ann Robson and David Bowman by arrangement with Sadler's Wells)
Recorded at The Maltings, Snape; a BBCtv production in conjunction with NET New York and CBC Toronto
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Act 3, Scene 1: The Borough, three days later
Scene 2: the same a few hours later
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Written by Bryan Blackburn
with June Whitfield, Peter Butterworth, The Rita Williams Singers
Special guests Robin Hunter, George Moon and Henry McGee
Elizabeth Chambers, Patrick O'Dwyer, Jeffrey Chandler
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A weekly look at the cinema
This week's guest: Richard Harris on the set of his latest film Cromwell
Introduced by Tony Bilbow with Philip Jenkinson
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