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Journey through Brazil, Argentina, and Chile with Johnny Morris

'The hills around Ouro Preto are still rich in minerals, but the mineral we crave, the one we fight and kill each other for, is no longer here.'
Johnny visits three of the most contrastecrareas of Brazil. From the striking and sometimes sensational forms of the new federal capital to the 18th-century colonial mining town on the steep hills of Ouro Preto - a name which means 'Black Gold'-he moves south to Sao Paulo, the biggest city in South America and eighth largest in the world. Here, it is claimed, some 64 new buildings are completed every day.
(from Bristol)

by Anthony Trollope
Dramatised in five parts by Simon Raven
Starring Colin Blakely, Rachel Gurney

Melmotte has refused permission for Sir Felix Carbury to marry Marie, but Felix is contemplating elopement. Mrs Hurtle has arrived from America and has insisted on seeing Paul.

This week: from Canada starring Guy Thauvette, Francine Racette

An independent young trapper in northern Quebec finds that he cannot support a wife on his meagre income and turns to a life of crime.
This feature, made by the French language section of the National Film Board of Canada, paints an evocative picture of life in the remote areas of Quebec.
Written and directed by Raymond Garceau
(Philip Jenkinson writes on page 9)

The second of three programmes with Geoffrey Moorhouse talking to people about insights into reality glimpsed through drugs, madness, or mysticism. Are these experiences a genuine contact with God or merely delusion?

'In going through my madness to find myself, I found God-within myself.'
'I felt myself in contact with the source of life and being and creation.'
Mary Barnes and Morag Coate, who have both been mad, and two doctors who knew them in their illnesses.

Michael Dean looks back over the week with William Rushton, James Cameron and other people, other views