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The fourth of six films that show the beautiful intertwinings of the living things on our varied earth.

Tropical rain forest is superlative. It's got the biggest flower, the longest snake, its orang-utan is the heaviest creature of the trees. It is the richest, most favourable environment for life on land with the greatest number of different plants and animals anywhere.
And yet all this complexity is an ordered balanced system of checks and counter checks. What is more, it is a system that man unbalances at considerable risk, for it is the lung of the world - but a lung in reverse that breathes out the oxygen that we breathe in.
(from Bristol)

Contributors

Narrator:
Jeffery Boswall
Filmed by:
John MacKinnon
Producer:
Richard Brock

The final report in this four-part series.
A man is buried alive for eight hours and comes up smiling. This extraordinary feat by a Yogi is one of the many remarkable events Italian Television witnessed in India.
Introduced by Derek Hart

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Hart
Producer:
Maryse Addison

Match your musical wits tonight against Joyce Grenfell, Robin Ray, Derek Hart
Guest musician Isobel Baillie
Chairman Joseph Cooper

Contributors

Panellist:
Joyce Grenfell
Panellist:
Robin Ray
Panellist:
Derek Hart
Guest musician:
Isobel Baillie
Chairman:
Joseph Cooper
Producer:
Walter Todds
Director:
Denis Moriarty

A spectacular sight and sound as this orchestra play Fame and Glory, Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Chopin's Nocturne in E flat, The William Tell Overture and a calypso, 'The Rope' - all on percussion instruments made from oil drums. Not one of the 18-man group can read music; their mainly classical repertoire is specially arranged for them by their conductor Raymond Shaw.

Contributors

Musicians:
Trinidad Philharmonic Steel Orchestra
Conductor:
Raymond Shaw
Designer:
Lesley Joan Bremness
Producer:
Stanley Dorfman

A weekly round-up of issues concerning the world of television. Michael Dean surveys the week's output and invites others to assess its achievements and effect.

(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Dean
Producer:
Philip Speight
Executive Producer:
Mike Fentiman

BBC Two England

About BBC Two

BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

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