Story "How Big is a Foot?" by Ralph Myller
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Colour)
Commentary spoken by Ian Holm
(Colour)
with Peter Woods; Weather
James Astor talks to Larry Rees. This 72-year-old son of a jeweller from Newport in Wales hoboed around America for 14 years in the 1920s and 30s. Inspired by Jack London's adventure stories, he became one of those hoboes since turned into folk heroes.
Reporters Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Pitman, Denis Tuohy, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson
This week: Who's Afraid of Helen Gurley Brown?
Helen Gurley Brown, author of the best-selling Sex and the Single Girl, is in England to start a war. Her target: the newly emancipated, trendy world of a handful of British women's glossy magazines. Her ammunition: a saucy, man-catching magazine called Cosmopolitan.
On the home front, faced with big circulation problems, her rivals nervously maintain there's no room for another glossy. And, not surprisingly, the prospect of a British version of Cosmopolitan is causing quite a stir.
Some people are afraid of Helen Gurley Brown. Her big guns are being aimed at glossies like Nova and 19, magazines which have done away with the 'worried blue-eyes' image and now frankly discuss things like virginity and VD. Others remain unmoved, like Mrs Betty Kenward, otherwise 'Jennifer' of Harpers Queen. Her diary, and her values, will definitely not change. Even Helen Gurley Brown can't alter that.
Set between the Mourne Mountains and the Irish Sea, in the South East corner of Co Down, this kingdom was first ruled by the legendary King Boirche from the summit of Slieve Binnian. He and his line are long since gone, but the mountains remain-and the people. People like Stanley Archer who farms on the foot-hills of Glasdrumman Mountain.
(from Belfast)
Tonight's film in this season of British films by some of the distinguished directors and writers who brought a new style to the cinema in the 60s
Starring Leslie Caron, Tom Bell
with Bernard Lee, Brock Peters, Cicely Courtneidge, Patricia Phoenix and Emlyn Williams
A French girl takes a bed-sitter in a crumbling West London house and finds her fellow lodgers a motley assortment.
Based on the novel by Lynne Reid Banks, this story of love and loneliness in a big city was Bryan Forbes' first film as both writer and director.
(Profile of Leslie Caron, and This Week's Films: page 11)
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