Story: "Janet Sees the Sea" by Peter Wiltshire
Presenters this week Toni Arthur, Lionel Morton
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Colour)
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Story: "Janet Sees the Sea" by Peter Wiltshire
Presenters this week Toni Arthur, Lionel Morton
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Colour)
Fourth day
The final two hours' play direct from Trent Bridge
with Peter Woods; Weather
To Big John's dismay, a young bank clerk and his wife with no experience of life out West become the owners of a ramshackle ranch near the High Chaparral.
by Jonathan Cobbald
starring Ronnie Barker as Lord Rustless
and featuring
Josephine Tewson as Bates
David Jason as Dithers
Mary Baxter as Cook
Moira Foot as Effie
and Frank Gatliff as Badger
A wedding should be a happy occasion, but when Lord Rustless discovers that even the bride doesn't like her future husband very much, something has to be done.
(Colour)
"Tradition is the enemy of progress." Until recently these words hung outside a school on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico. Here, in spite of many changes, the Navajo (the largest surviving tribe of Red Indians) still live as they have done for centuries. Many of them speak no English. They still go to the medicine man if they are sick and they still conduct complicated ten-day-long healing ceremonies.
After surviving conquest by the Spaniards and defeat by Kit Carson, the Navajo culture is threatened by the forced assimilation policies of recent years. Children have been taken from their families for ten months a year, taught nothing but English, and introduced to western values and Christianity. The result has been confusion, high suicide rates, alcoholism, and one trained lawyer and a handful of teachers. Now anthropologists see the key to survival in continuing tradition and not destroying it, and tonight's Horizon looks at their work and asks just what chance the Navajos have of survival.
"Michael Barnes's engrossing Horizon." (Sunday Times)
"A film made with sensitive appreciation of Navajo culture." (Daily Telegraph)
by Mavor Moore
[Starring] Joss Ackland and Robert Hardy
The applicant's forms are in, and his deposit has been paid. He must now, submit to a 'few formalities.'
[Repeat]
and Weather
Richie Benaud introduces highlights of the fourth day's play at Trent Bridge
with Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Michael Dean, Sheridan Morley