Story: "The Moon and Elfinfloflam" by Norman Beaton
Guest storyteller Norman Beaton
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)
with Peter Woods
Reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad
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This week: Excuse Me, Your Class is Showing
We are becoming, so we are told, a classless society. How you do what you do is more important than who your father was. But what happens when a working-class boy like Eric Parsloe becomes President of the Oxford Union? Or Mike D'Abo, after Harrow and Cambridge, chooses the world of pop instead of the Army? Or Diana Regler, born to a life of servants and tennis parties in Kenya, chooses instead to marry a fitter?
There are a great many exceptions, but class consciousness is something you don't have to look far to find - as Jeremy James discovered when he looked for examples of those who have crossed, or tried to cross, the class barrier.
"I wanted to convey my affection for the vastness and variety of the architecture and scenery of Australia..."
Thus Sir John Betjeman begins the first of four programmes in which he explores his love affair with the great sub-continent.
Tonight he looks at two of the sources of Australian wealth, gold and wool - and the art and architecture they produced, from a deserted town in Northern Queensland still haunted by the ghost of gold, to a New South Wales sheep station, which is also a stately home. He also celebrates the great Australian landscape painters in a country where 'nature is always bigger than man, and nearly everybody, thank goodness, speaks English.'
A BBC/Australian Broadcasting Commission co-production
Starring Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Margaret Hayes
When Richard Dadier takes up his first teaching job at a New York technical college, he finds his colleagues cynically apathetic and his teenage pupils tough, rebellious and savagely violent.
(This Week's Films: page 11)
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Last night's controversial documentary If Britain Had Fallen is followed up by comment and discussion of the film and the questions it raised.
