Story "Frederick" by Leo Lionni
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.20pm)
(Colour)
(to 19.00)
with Peter Woods
Weather
by Sir John Betjeman
Stay traveller! With no irreverent haste
Approach the mansion of a man of taste.
Hail Castle Howard! Hail Vanbrugh's noble dome
Where Yorkshire in her splendour rivals Rome!
The Englishman's castle has been his home. So has the stately palace and the Georgian terrace, the village cottage and the industrial back-to-back, the suburban semi and the tower block. And with his home there's usually been a garden-formal and elegant, or a Capability Brown landscape, or just a patch of lawn at the back.
In this film Sir John Betjeman surveys house and garden through the centuries from an unusual vantage-point. His bird's-eye view is romantic, poetic, and sometimes quite outspoken.
"The idea of juxtaposing Betjeman and a helicopter is bizarre, but it worked triumphantly" (The Observer)
"Such a rare quality of romance in this delightful 50 minutes" (Daily Express)
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Johnny Morris visits some of the islands in the Pacific Ocean.
"These tiny islands... have grown slowly out of the sea. They are just layers of limestone gradually plastered up by little creatures whose sole ambition in life is to convert sea water into limestone, for ever and ever..."
Johnny flies over one of the 'new' atolls in the Society group and tours two of the main islands. On Tahiti he finds 'the essence of Gauguin' in the faces of the Vahini. He samples a luxurious French hotel on the edge of the lagoon and flies to the beautiful island of Bora Bora where he takes a trip in one of the few remaining sailing outriggers in the South Pacific.
(from Bristol)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Adapted for television by Martin Starkie and Nevill Coghill
(Colour)
Within 90 years 60,000,000,000,000,000 people - a 2,000-storey building covering the entire surface of the earth... fiction or fact?
