Story: "Hole in the Road" by Vera Colwell
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Colour)
(6.30-
with Richard Whitmore
Reporting the world tonight
Weather
'My models, human figures, are never mere attendant figures in an interior. They are the main theme of my work.'
One of the greatest of 20th-century painters, Henri Matisse, died in 1954. In this film, David Sylvester examines the relationship between the artist and his model as it appears in Matisse's work.
The film also includes extracts from the painter's notebooks read by Alec McCowen and a unique sequence filmed in 1946 showing Matisse at work in his studio, drawing from life.
(Colour)
Some more items of interest, information and investigation for collectors about collecting.
This week's subjects include
Antique maps: a brief look at English maps and map-makers, beginning in the 17th-century with a visit to Sussex and the home of a leading collector and dealer, P.J. Radford.
Lace: many people own a piece of old lace but is it antique? In the studio Doreen Wright gives some tips on dating and identifying such lace, and looks at a selection of old lace bobbins and winders.
Arthur Negus answers viewers' questions
Hugh Scully introduces the programme
(from Bristol)
by Hugh Whitemore
Six actors in a series of eight plays - Michele Dotrice, Ruth Dunning, Denholm Elliott, Richard Vernon, Dennis Waterman, Billie Whitelaw
Flying saucers, a neurotic druid, a missing scientist, and the possible destruction of the world provide the background for this thriller. Will Peter and Valerie be in time to avert cosmic disaster?
and Weather
Ivan Illich, the controversial Roman Catholic priest, talking to Denis Tuohy, reveals some of the qualities which have caused him to be described as a 'conservative subversive.'
'...it's not like being Elvis though, is it?'
Neville Smith, actor and author of the film Gumshoe, walked around in black the day Buddy Holly was killed. Tony Bilbow talks to the writer of the highly acclaimed television plays The Golden Vision and After a Lifetime.
