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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In the dragon-shaped group of islands which is Japan, it is said that one is never out-of-sight of a mountain. These are the Japanese Alps, which run down through the main island of Honshu like a backbone. In this volcanic landscape hot springs, bubbling and boiling mud, and roaring vent-holes are all part of a sinister seismography. Snow blankets the peaks in winter, but in spring all kinds of wildlife come out of hibernation or up from the lowlands as the snows melt: Asiatic black bears, foxes, hares, flying squirrels, and a variety of birds.
English commentary written by Derek Williams
A performance specially devised for television of the great cycle of songs composed by Franz Schubert to 24 poems by Wilhelm Muller sung by Peter Pears with Benjamin Britten (piano)
Children being as conservative as they are, do they believe life could have been better sometime in the past than today?
Gerald Harrison gets a mixed response from pupils at a school in Bath.
Written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie with Tim Brooke-Taylor
Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie
with Roddy Maude-Roxby, Corbett Woodall
Tony Bilbow reviews Truffaut's "L'Enfant Sauvage" to be shown this week at the London Film Festival.
Philip Jenkinson shows vintage film of Jeanette MacDonald, Marlene Dietrich, Jane Russell and Paul Robeson