Story: "The Flea That Jumped" by Peter Wiltshire
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)
(Shown on Tuesday, BBC1)
with Clive Jacobs; Weather
Thirty thousand young West Germans tried to avoid National Service this year. Half became the army's reluctant recruits - the rest joined the growing ranks of conscientious objectors... young men who avoid compulsory conscription by proving they're genuinely opposed to any form of killing. West German Television reports on a situation that's causing increasing concern in their country.
Another West German crew came to Britain to report on how the British army has fared since conscription was abolished. They were impressed.
Introduced by Derek Hart.
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Sir John Gielgud talks about the versatility of actors and the innovations of writers early in this century.
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Two years ago Horizon asked some Natural History film makers to make a film and then, in the intervening years, filmed how they did it.
How, for example, do you get cameras inside birds' nests that are in dark holes in trees, or into the bottom of an insect-eating pitcher plant to film the plant's eye-view of its dinner? How do you arrange for a pike to catch a stickleback successfully in full view of the camera and lights?
And how do you cope with film of a stickleback's egg where you need a magnification so great that the vibrations from a passing lorry wreck the shot?
All this you can see... plus the film they were making. It's probably the most detailed ever made of the life of the stickleback, even down to the way he sees the world through a haze of tiny animals that lodge in the lens of his eye.
Match your musical wits against Joyce Grenfell, Bernard Levin, Robin Ray
Chairman Joseph Cooper
(Colour)
Weather
including 'Lark,' 'It's the Frame,' 'Feeling Feeling' and 'Little Indians' from her second LP.
Early in October the first official World Speed Trials for sailing boats, sponsored by John Player, where held in Portland Harbour over 500 metres.
Tonight's film conveys some of the atmosphere of the occasion.
