Louis Malle finds a devotion to a spiritual life that transcends the poverty of the material one and discovers that in a country as crowded as India, religion is the one way for the individual to be alone.
A series of informal parties
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Leader David McCallum
and featuring Kenneth McKellar
and The Roy Gunson Dancers
...is a line from a romantic story in a woman's magazine. A quote from a world in which love is always the sweetest thing, indeed the only thing. The world of romantic novelists.
In 1970, the age of permissiveness, pop and the Pill, the daisy-fresh, sugar-sweet, values of love-and a happy ending in the last line-are booming as never before. Serial rights, paperbacks, and hardbacks are bringing hard cash to authors writing about the values which are of a bygone day. The great ladies of the industry, like Barbara Cartland, sell both honey and virginity in a single paragraph of breathy prose. The newcomers like Max Barrett and Violet Winspear work their way from basement flats and East End flower factories by recognising that they're on to a good thing.
In a programme that is part documentary and in part the very antithesis of The Wednesday Play, Desmond Wilcox examines the world of romantic novelists. Ian Ogilvy, the Hero, Liza Goddard, the Heroine, and Tony Britton, the Narrator, bring their works to life.
