The best of the week's 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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Last year Brazil's dreamers and builders launched a four-year programme to conquer the vast mysterious Amazon basin. Mechanised armies of bulldozers are slashing red-earth tracks through virgin rain-forest in an attempt to occupy the hinterland, but deep in the forest the Indians are fighting back with bows and arrows.
Construction of Brazil's Great North Road, from Manaos to Georgetown, has been brought to a standstill by one of the most hostile tribes ever encountered.
A BBC expedition by mini-hover-craft traces the route of the proposed jungle highway, from the Amazon to the Atlantic Ocean, and uncovers the strange story of a massacre in the forest.
A co-production with Bayerischer Rundfunk
Louis Kentner and Jeremy Menuhin play Music for Two Pianos
Mozart Sonata in D major and Bartok Sonata for two pianos and percussion
With Tristan Fry and John Lees
(Radio Times People: page 5)
by Mrs Gaskell
Dramatised in six parts by Michael Voysey
Molly Gibson is staying at Hamley Hall where the return of Osborne and Roger is eagerly awaited. Dr Gibson has called at the Towers and met Clare Kirkpatrick
from The Talk of the Town
Introduced by Roy Hudd
with Billy Dainty, The Black Theatre of Prague, Lester and Smart, The Temperance Seven, Ken Wood
Tony Mansell's Coffee Set
Burt Rhodes and his Orchestra
The first programme in a new series deals with one of medicine's biggest problems and at present the number one killer in the Western world.
The programme describes what a coronary is, why some people die and others live. It also suggests some of the ways you can reduce your chances of having one.
Sir Hugh Greene, Chairman of Bodley Head, chairman of Greene, King Brewery, chairman of The European Atlantic Action Committee on Greece, writer, journalist, creative consultant to a television series ...'I never foresaw what a busy life retirement would mean.' The former Director-General of the BBC looks back on his week.
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