Story "The Lion's Concert"
Retold by Mabel Watts
With Diane Dorgan, Johnny Ball
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Clour)
(to 19.00)
with Peter Woods
Weather
Sandy Denny sings 'Next Time Around,' 'The North Star Grassman and the Ravens,' 'Crazy Lady Blues.'
(Colour)
Johnny Morris visits some of the islands in the Pacific Ocean.
'The tourist pamphlet... simply said Western Samoa was the best-kept secret in the South Pacific. A time-and-motion-study expert would go on strike here.'
Western Samoa is the only fully independent Polynesian nation, and its capital, Apia, is probably the smallest in the world.
Johnny wanders through the villages and plantations where he watches the collecting and preparation of coconuts for copra.
(from Bristol)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Adapted for television by Martin Starkie and Nevill Coghill
"The closing tales in the series were of fraud, alchemy, and love. And the dreamy, haunting essence of the stories was never so strong and so poignant" (Daily Mirror)
(Colour)
[Repeat]
A series of six films which concentrate on a few hours of intense activity.
Who will buy the Lady Blunt? This is the name of a Stradivarius violin made in 1721, sold to a Lady Blunt in 1864 for £260, and auctioned at Sotheby's on 3 June this year.
Interested people inspected it, famous musicians played it and the dealers bid for it. Who would eventually possess one of the finest violins ever to come up for sale remained a mystery.
with Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley
