Today's story is "Follow this Line" by Michael O'Leary

Why spend two years filming in the North Sea? Most marine film makers work in the warmer seas and the dark, cold water at the edge of Bridlington prom has been ignored.

This series corrects the omission. New filming techniques have revealed a beautiful and sometimes bizarre life which provides an opportunity for scientists like Dr David Bellamy to explore the results of millions of years of evolution.
Natural history film from Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Hamburg)
(Viewing and discovering - six times over: page 14)

with Peter Woods reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad
Weather

A Television Literary Quiz

"I tried to look Arthur in the eye. But no, this time-honoured process didn't work. Here were no windows to the soul. They were merely part of his face, light blue jellies, like naked shell-fish in the crevices of a rock. There was nothing to hold the attention; no sparkle, no inward gleam. Try as I would, my glance wandered away to more interesting features; the soft, snout-like nose, the concertina chin..."
Who wrote it? Do you like it?

Alan Brien asks Alan Bennett, Margaret Drabble, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Philip Hope-Wallace
(from Manchester)

Looking at the world through the eyes of European television.
Wherever there is a story the film crews of our television colleagues on the other side of the Channel are there reporting and commenting. From stations like NDR Hamburg, ORTF Paris, SSR Geneva, and a host of others.
Introduced by Derek Hart

by Leo Knowles
with Leslie Sands as General Serevich

The Czech uprising. A convened Tribunal is waiting the arrival of Alexander Dubcek to try him. Prague is in a ferment. Students throw bombs and the tribunal members debate the case. But where is Dubcek? Why is he taking so long?
(Leslie Sands is a member of the BSC)

Ten Sitting Rooms
Last week an unusual exhibition opened at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Instead of hanging canvases and mounting sculptures the ICA invited 10 young artists, most of them fresh out of college, to fill a room with their ideas. To use it as an ideal living space, a social comment, a dream or a nightmare. Review went along to the gallery to film the artists at work, talk to them and catch the reactions of the public.

The Box in the Corner
T.C. Worsley, one of our leading TV critics and author of Television, the Ephemeral Art, which is a compilation of his reviews for the Financial Times, makes searching, often provocative comments on trends in British television, the quality of programmes and the attitude of producers towards its public in a wide ranging interview with James Mossman.
"I select three or four or five things I'm going to watch... the first turns out to be lousy, the second indifferent and the third not much good... by then you're getting to the end of the week..."

sings John Sebastian
John Sebastian is a kind, gentle man whose work overflows with love. Once with the Even Dozen Jug Band and Lovin' Spoonful, he's now a solo star. Tonight he sings What a Day for a Day Dream, Loving You, Darling Be Home Soon, and She's a Lady.

(John Sebastian - a smile among the snarling guitars: page 15)
(Next week: Elton John)

Tony Bilbow looks back over the week with William Rushton, James Cameron and other people; other views