Story: "The Mouse that Travelled" by Julian D'Albie
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15pm)
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David Attenborough in conversation with musicians. Tonight he talks to the outstandingly versatile tenor Robert Tear who has already arrived on the international scene.
First shown early in 1972, this series shows four situations in which people try to communicate.
Unless there's an outbreak of violence, or scandal, or a wild experiment being tried, most schools are taken for granted. We all know what school is like. But for teachers, and for the pupils, it's a daily drama, no less difficult for being familiar. How can the teachers reach the 30 restless faces in front of them? How can the kids get through the day?
Maggie, the head of the English department at a large friendly comprehensive, tries different ways to approach her pupils. In the film she works with one fourth-year class - a lively, noisy bunch who secretly admit to wanting to learn.
The film-makers brought educational psychologist Dr Richard Suchman to talk to both teachers and pupils to see how differently they see the same class. The results surprised everyone.
A BBCtv/KCETtv production
Starring Hayley Mills
with Ian McShane
Seventeen-year-old Brydie White has grown up mentally retarded following a shotgun accident years before in which a little boy was killed. In the small Cotswold village where she lives, her only friends are small children and animals - until one night, Roibin, a handsome gypsy boy, saves her from drowning and a whole new world opens up for Brydie.
This Week's Films: page 9
Six programmes on the civilisations of Turkey
Written and introduced by John Julius Norwich
The Harem of the Turkish sultans in Topkapi Palace has for centuries been a byword for splendour and decadence. From these dazzling rooms, recently restored and now shown on television for the first time, the Ottoman Empire was governed and misruled. Their capital, Constantinople, was transformed by buildings such as the Blue Mosque into the Istanbul of today.
In the final programme of the series Lord Norwich brings his survey of Turkish history right up to the present time.
with John Edmunds
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