Story: "Henny Penny" (trad)

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The second in a film trilogy about the Channel Islands.

Channel Islanders claim that they are directly descended from our Norman conquerors. That they have a special place in the British community can be seen today in the government that they have developed independently since the Conquest. Can it survive in its present form? How strong is it?
A film portrait of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which includes the islands of Sark and Alderney, explores the constitution of both the individual parts and the whole.
(from Bristol: first shown on BBC1 South and West)

Introduced by David Jones

Georgia Brown Sings Brecht
'You say that girls may strip with your permission
You draw the line dividing Art from Sin,
First you must solve the problem of starvation,
Then start your talking, that's where we begin '
Some lyrics from The Threepenny Opera, the best known of the Brecht-Weill musicals. The songs that Brecht wrote with Kurt Weill in the 20s still retain their power and popularity. Georgia Brown is their foremost British interpreter. For Review she recreates the world of the Berlin cabaret, its mixture of satire and kitsch out of which these songs were born.
(Radio Times People: page 5)

An Imaginary Friend
'All the litterati keep An Imaginary Friend...'
A couplet by W.H. Auden was the inspiration for an experiment in biography. Five writers were asked to tell the story of a man who has greatly influenced their life and work. Between them, Irene Handl, Elizabeth Bowen, V.S. Naipaul, John Betjeman and Peter Cook build up a portrait of John Woodby. The result is both an unusually candid biography and a revealing glimpse of the writer's craft in action.

Lifelines
A young girl looks back on a love affair which ended tragically and relives its best and worst moments. Lifelines, danced by William Louther and Naomi Lapzeson, is a short ballet written specially for Review by Bob Cohan, director of the Contemporary Dance Theatre.

(David Jones is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

Mild and bitter humour, with sweet and sour songs that will tickle your palate - if you get the drift of: Henry Livings, Alex Glasgow, The Fivepenny Piece and their guests Harry Carpenter, Colin Edwynn
(from Manchester)

by Honore de Balzac
Dramatised in five parts by Ray Lawler
Starring Margaret Tyzack

The Hulot family has risen to eminence under Napoleon I. The Baroness Hulot's cousin, Bette, is the only member of the family who has not shared in their good fortune.
(Nice Mrs Stephens: see page 12)