Today's story is "Sarah's Walk" by Peter Wiltshire.
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.20 pm)
(Colour)
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Today's story is "Sarah's Walk" by Peter Wiltshire.
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.20 pm)
(Colour)
with Peter Woods
and Weather
Narrated by Michael Flanders.
Why is Cornwall different? What is it about its history and people, their customs, superstitions and, legends that has given the peninsula a feeling that it is almost a foreign country?
Daphne du Maurier's vivid and highly individual film, directed by her son, illustrates and illuminates the answers to these questions and gives us a vision of this beautiful county as it was, and to some extent still is, before commercialism destroys its magic.
(Daphne du Maurier: pages 6-7)
(Next week at 8.0, Le Chagrin et la Pitie a major documentary about France under occupation)
(Colour)
Introduced by David Jones
Bron and Bird
In a sketch specially written for Review, Eleanor Bron and John Bird report on the visit of the Hangchow National Theatre to the World Theatre Season and the perils of simultaneous translation.
Good Taste
How much can you tell about a person by the way they furnish their home? Review asked designer David Hicks and ex-lady's maid Margaret Powell to choose their ideal living-room: their differing choices offer a light-hearted look at the psychology of good taste.
Victoria on a Suree
Little is known about Queen Victoria's visit to the West Indies, but Jonathan Routh has uncovered a revealing journal of the great lady's last years and has celebrated Her Majesty's many pastimes during this eventful holiday with a recent exhibition of paintings.
Stockhausen's 'Stimmung'
'I am not making my music, but transcribing the vibrations I receive. I am a radio receiver...'
'Play a vibration in the rhythm of your smallest particle. Play a vibration in the rhythm of the universe...'
These statements come from the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen who, like the astrologists, believes that we are now leaving the age of the intellect and entering a spiritual age, where the accent will fall on the intuitive. In Review Stockhausen talks about his music, with excerpts from Stimmung ('Atmosphere') which has been described as one of the great landmarks of Western music.
(David Jones is a member of the RSC)
(Colour)
Love and Marriage ...should go together like a horse and carriage; but when the cart is put before the horse, the groom is well and truly in the cart!
From Finland, one of this year's outstanding comedy programmes starring Marja Korhonen, Pekka Autiovuori, Helge Herala
by Honore de Balzac
A second chance to see this dramatisation in five parts by Honore de Balzac
Starring Margaret Tyzack
Montes, Crevel, Hector and Steinbock all believe themselves to be the father of Valerie's unborn child. Bette has sworn to complete her revenge on the Hulots by marrying the Marshal.
(There will be no "Cousin Bette" next Friday: the second showing of the final episode will be on Saturday 11 September)
A special edition from Glasgow, featuring broadcasters, writers, and viewers with opinions on the role of television and radio in Scotland.
Owen Dudley Edwards of Edinburgh University opens the discussion.
In the chair Michael Dean