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'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

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Hart
Producer:
Maryse Addison

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)

Contributors

Author:
Henry James
Dramatised by:
Jack Pulman
Producer:
Martin Lisemore
Director:
James Cellan Jones
Bob Assingham:
Cyril Cusack
Prince Amerigo:
Daniel Massey
Charlotte Stant:
Gayle Hunnicutt
Adam Verver:
Barry Morse
Maggie:
Jill Townsend
Fanny Assingham:
Kathleen Byron
Principino:
Kes Bohan-McGlashan
Mrs Rance:
Sarah Brackett
Page:
Billy Franks

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)

Contributors

Presenter:
J. Bronowski
Producer:
Dick Gilling
Series Editor:
Adrian Malone

BBC Two England

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