Story: "Nobody Understood" by A.D. Pickering
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Colour)
Final day
Coverage of the closing overs direct from Trent Bridge
with Peter Woods
Weather
A profile of the world-famous British painter.
'Why should I struggle to explain? Why should I have to bruise the chancy sensations of the process of the creative art of painting? It is all as impossible as explaining the smell of leaves or the smell of a rose...'
Graham Sutherland refers to the difficulty all artists face in talking about their work. Yet in spite of cameras and lights, both at a press conference for the opening of an important exhibition in Munich and in conversations with his friend Giorgio Soavi, he talks with ease and clarity about what he has tried, and is still trying, to achieve.
(Colour)
Some more items of interest, information and investigation for collectors about collecting.
This week's subjects include
Waterford Glass: Michael Reinhold seeks the truth about identification and takes a detailed look at how it was and still is made.
Silhouettes: in the studio is a valuable collection of these fashionable cut paper portraits.
Arthur Negus answers viewers' questions
Hugh Scully introduces the programme
(from Bristol)
(Colour)
by Douglas Livingstone
Six actors in a series of eight plays - Michele Dotrice, Ruth Dunning, Denholm Elliott, Richard Vernon, Dennis Waterman, Billie Whitelaw
To revisit the scene of happy childhood memories seems an ideal escape for Stanley. He's on the run from the big city and his unfaithful wife. Surprisingly, his destination is a tatty boarding-house on the edge of the moors.
Richie Benaud introduces highlights of the final day's play at Trent Bridge
and Weather
When The Outsider was published In 1956, the critics raved. Colin Wilson became famous overnight. Since then he has written nearly 30 books, but has been largely unknown as a serious writer. The original angry young man is now 41. He talks to Michael Dean.
