Story: "Fish is Fish"
Written and illustrated by Leo Lionni
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)
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Story: "Fish is Fish"
Written and illustrated by Leo Lionni
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)
with Richard Whitmore
Reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad
Weather
The last of five anthologies of films and extracts of items from Review's last season.
Introduced by Keith Dewhurst.
Stories and Storytellers
Including "The Young Visiters", the classic written by a 9-year-old, Daisy Ashford, who died this year aged 90, with Alan Bennett and Vivian Pickles; William Trevor, well-known short-story writer, telling the tale (on film) of a journey, observed by cameras, to rediscover a character he once invented; Edgar Allan Poe's great spine-chiller "The Tell-tale Heart", read by Donald Pleasence. And music from the States:
The Juilliard String Quartet, who celebrate their 25th anniversary this year, playing Beethoven against the landscape of New York City and the blind virtuoso jazz musician Roland Kirk, backed by the 'Vibration Society.'
(Colour)
Cliff Michelmore covers the motoring news of the week.
Will the bigger lorries of the Common Market mean more noise, dirt. and danger on British roads? Or will heavier loads mean fewer trucks with better engines? Barrie Gill looks for some answers in the Commercial Motor Show at Earls Court.
From Eindhoven a preview by Gordon Wilkins of a new Dutch family car, and here at home, Cliff Michelmore tests his own driving on the British School of Motoring's high performance course.
(At times he's over-cautious... page 3)
by Henrik Ibsen
English version by Norman Ginsbury
A Stage 2 presentation
with Colin Blakely as Peer Gynt, Wendy Hiller as Aase, Francesca Annis as Solveig and Ray Barrett as The Button-Moulder
(Colin Blakely is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
(BBC2 People: page 4)
(Colour)
and Weather
Bob Harris with the news, views and sounds of today's music.
In the studio Steppenwolf, John Kay Band, Linda Lewis plus album tracks, films and guests.
(BBC2 People: page 5)