Today's story is "Hilda meets the Chicks" by Jill Tomlinson
with Peter Woods reporting the world tonight
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Items of interest, information and investigation for collectors about collecting
This week's subjects include
The Expert: behind the scenes at a famous London saleroom
Rare Coins: Peter Rayner talks about a Charles I silver pound
Japanese Swords: an expert explains the rising interest
Telephones: an expanding network of collectors
The Question and Answer spot this week: Stamps
Chairman Hugh Scully
(from Bristol)
ZDF... ORTF... RAI... SRG... JRT... a bewildering variety of initials that to people living on the other side of the Channel means the television service of their own country.
They all contribute to Europa. For wherever there is a story the film crews of our television colleagues on the Continent are there reporting and commenting. Introduced by Derek Hart
by Graham Seal
"That's right, love everyone. I don't want your Christian love, Slade. It stinks. Why don't you just admit you hate me?"
Sculptures that Move
This week a retrospective exhibition of kinetic art opens at the Hayward Gallery, London. Review brings to its studio samples of these strange objects that move and shimmer, and change colour.
Visconti at Work
Italian film director Luchino Visconti is currently filming Thomas Mann's famous story Death in Venice. Review cameras followed him through one hectic, 12-hour working day in which he transformed squares and canals and hotel cellars to conjure up the Edwardian era. Review also shows Visconti on his travels through Hungary, Poland, Finland, and Sweden in search of a 14-year-old boy to play his juvenile lead.
British actor Dirk Bogarde (left), stars in this film: he talks about working with this great and exacting director.
Muriel Spark
The celebrated writer has a new novel, The Driver's Seat, published this week. James Mossman talks to the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Ballad of Peckham Rye and Memento Mori about her work and the world of her novels.
Michael Dean looks back over the week with William Rushton, James Cameron and other people, other views
