Story: Bod and the Cherry Tree Written and illustrated by MICHAEL COLE and JOANNE COLE Presenters:
MIRANDA CONNELL , DON SPENCER
6: The Reef at Night
During their six months' stay in the Islands of Comoro in the Indian Ocean ROLAND VON HENTIG and his film team made many dives at night. The apparent lifeless nature of the reef at night is an illusion: many creatures not seen during the day are active in the darkness. It's a good time to see squid and octopus. And what happens to fish at night?
Producer DAVID CORDINGLEY A BBC/NDR co-production
Coral World, £3.20, from bookshops
Weather
Reporters Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Pitman, Jack Pizzey, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson
Twenty years ago this week, on 17 May 1954, the first shot was fired in the American blacks' war for civil rights, not on the riot-torn street of some northern city but in the United States Supreme Court. In what has become known simply as the Brown Case, Chief Justice Earl Warren ruled that segregation was unconstitutional. It was a shattering blow to the Deep South, leading directly to the freedom riders, murder, riots and the rise of Martin Luther King.
Now, 20 years later, to the wry delight of many Southerners, the civil rights battle has moved through the scorched ghettoes of the mid-60s race riots to the northern cities in general and Detroit in particular. This summer, the Supreme Court will pass judgment on a case in Detroit that will be as significant in 1974 as Brown was in 1954. Jeremy James has been to Alabama in the Deep South and Detroit in the Deep North to examine the first 20 years of American civil rights and asks - how far have the blacks really come and how far have they to go?
A BBC/KOCE California co-production
The first of two films starring the legendary idol of the 50s James Dean
also starring Julie Harris, Jo Van Fleet, Raymond Massey
James Dean became a star overnight with his debut in Elia Kazan's powerful film based on John Steinbeck's 20th-century version of the Cain and Abel story. In the California of 1913, Cal, the younger son of a farmer, discovers his mother, whom he had long believed dead, running a brothel in a nearby town. This discovery proves traumatic for the adolescent Cal.
This Week's Films: page 9
with David Holmes ; Weather
Tony Bilbow and Philip Jenkin son present a round-up of what's going on in the film world, including A Bigger Splash, featuring David Hockney and directed by Jack Hazan , the only British film to be shown in Critics Week at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Producer BARRY BROWN
Philip Jenkinson : page 9
