A series of ten programmes
(Shown last Sunday on BBC1)
Let's Speak Welsh
Leonard Williams, Londoner, zoologist. jazz musician, shares his Cornwall home with a colony of Amazonian woolly monkeys. He talks to Michael Dean of the astonishing conclusions about Man to which his observation of them has led.
'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. This film tells its story and is all the more intriguing because it was made by a German...
Introduced by Derek Hart
(Postponed from 8 November)
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, Barry Morse as Adam Verver, Jill Townsend as Maggie, Kathleen Byron as Fanny
The continuing closeness of Mr Verver and his daughter has brought Charlotte and the Prince together. Fanny is concerned about the ambiguous relationship between Charlotte and the Prince.
[Repeat]
(Repeated next Saturday evening)
with Robert Erskine
Since Roman times, children have always demanded amusement, but the Victorians especially insisted on toys to encourage the pursuit of knowledge.
Another chance to see this personal view by J. Bronowski
'There is a great intellectual leap forward when Man splits a piece of stone, a piece of wood, and lays bare in it the print that Nature put there before he split it.'
The wandering nomads cease their migrations and settle in townships, learning new skills. Here Dr Bronowski discovers the origins of science in the interaction of hand and brain.
Fully illustrated book, available from booksellers, price ã4.75
Presented by David Holmes with Peter Dorling; Weather
Chris Dunkley examines the world of television.
