The best of the week's news film from all over the world, together with other subjects of interest. For the deaf and hard of hearing a commentary appears visually.
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A film portrait of an African 'upside-down tree' and its wildlife.

The ancient baobab, growing in dry bush country, provides shade, food, and shelter for everything from elephants to bushbabies, honey-guides to fruit bats. It is the hornbills, however, that use the tree in the most remarkable way: the female cements herself inside the nest-hole to rear her young.

This unique film reveals some of the innermost secrets of one of the most fascinating life-cycles in the bird world.
(From Bristol)

An opera by Leos Janacek based on Dostoevsky's novel in a production by the National Educational Television Network of America
English translation by Marie Winn

"In every human being there is a divine spark" (Janacek - at the head of his score)
(From the House of the Dead: page 11)

Nearly 800 Liverpool children sailed on an Educational Cruise round the Mediterranean. They tell Gerald Harrison some of their impressions of the Greek civilisation, and of the life of the Romans, who built the great seaport of Ephesus, where St Paul preached to the silversmiths.
(from Manchester)

Written by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus
Starring Spike Milligan
and featuring John Bluthal
with Edward Underdown, Patricia Hayes, Arthur Mullard, Rita Webb, Bill Pertwee, Alan Clare, Charlie Atom, Graham Mallard

Tony Bilbow introduces Jason Robards who stars in the new film about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, Tora Tora Tora, and Richard Fleischer, the director, Philip Jenkinson shows newsreel film of the original attack.