With Geoffrey Morris
Book 80p: see page 86
Let's Speak Welsh
Weather
"If only architects had to live in some of the places they design." Michael Dean talks to Irene Brain of the National Council of Women and to people responsible for architectural design.
'The leaves are falling and you will fall like them...'
So read the leaflets dropped by the Germans over the Maginot Line in the autumn of 1939. To the French soldiers manning what they thought was the strongest chain of fortresses in the world, the words seemed an empty threat. Yet by the following June, the Maginot Line and France had fallen to Germany.
The Maginot Line still survives. It's visited by tourists, souvenir hunters and those who remember the battles and their comrades who fell. Tonight's film tells the story of the Maginot Line and is all the more intriguing because it was made by a German...
Introduced by Derek Hart
by Henry James
Dramatised in six parts by Jack Pulman
Starring Cyril Cusack as Bob Assingham, Daniel Massey as Prince Amerigo, Gayle Hunnicutt as Charlotte Stant, Barry Morse as Adam Verver, Jill Townsend as Maggie, Kathleen Byron as Fanny Assingham
Maggie and the Prince are now married and have a son. They are staying with Mr Verver at Fawns, his country house.
(Colour) [Repeat]
(Repeated next Saturday evening)
with Robert Erskine
All the Gods come sauntering round the surface of a painted vase on their way to the most famous party in antiquity.
A personal view by J. Bronowski
Dr Bronowski opens the first programme of the series at Man's birthplace, the great Rift Valley of East Africa, and traces the evolution of Man's unique gifts-foresight and imagination - and the changes in Man as he marches out of Africa, through desert and ice age, to leave the print of his hand in a Spanish cave.
(Repeated next Sunday afternoon)
(Fully illustrated book, available from booksellers, price £4.75)
(The end for Bronowski - or a new beginning?: page 17)
(Colour)
Presented by David Holmes with Peter Dorling; Weather
Chris Dunkley examines the world of television