Story: An Afternoon Out by JUDY WHITFIELD
Guest storyteller Nigel Stock Presenters this week
Miranda Connell , Don Spencer
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4: The Tanners
' You can ride a bike and you don' know how. That's the position on it. You've either got it or you haven'.'
(HAROLD TREGUNNA, leather finisher) Many people enjoy the beauty, resilience and subtle working properties of natural leather. Fewer people, however, recognise these properties in leather in its raw and unattractive condition.
In a remote village in Cornwall the Croggon brothers maintain a 300-year-old tradition of oak-bark tanning to produce a leather which is completely natural and with unique qualities.
Narrated by Kenneth Hudson
Producer RAY SUTCLIFFE
Between the Tides
From the underwater world of a Cornish beach, the magnifying camera lens brings out the grace and beauty of creatures that we usually pass over as sand grains. Narrator HUGH FALKUS
Scientific editor PROF NIKO TINBERGZN Presented by CHRISTOPHER PARSONS (Bristol)
Marshal Virgil Packer, a hard and ruthless man, is determined to capture a notorious Mexican bandit by crossing into forbidden Montaya territory.
(Colour)
A musical quiz
Joseph Cooper as questionmaster invites you to match your musical wits against Arianna Stassinopoulos, Bernard Levin, Robin Ray
Guest musician John Lill
Listen and Be Loyal
In World War II how did the British react to Whitehall's propaganda aimed at boosting morale? According to Professor Tom Harrisson :
With laughter or apathy because much of it was inept. Whitehall, insulated by education and class, usually failed to understand or communicate with ordinary people.
TOM HARRISSON , ornithologist, anthropologist and co-founder of Mass Observation, worked for British Home Intelligence. The official record is known -this is the unofficial side of the story, that of the man in the street who couldn' answer back. Harrisson supports his view with propaganda films, contemporary social surveys by Mass Observation and intelligence documents just off the secrets list.
Narrator PAUL DANEMAN
Editor BRUCE NORMAN
Producer MICHAEL BARNES
by Anton Chekhov
'If all of us together, working as a community, devoted ourselves to science and art and the pursuit of truth, I'm convinced that the truth would be discovered very quickly, and mankind at last escape from his continual agonising dread of death - perhaps even from death itself!'
The first of a series of films, originally shown on Full House and 2nd House, in which eminent writers and directors were invited to dramatise short stories by Chekhov and Joyce. Tonight's film revolves around the confrontation of ideas between Anton, a landscape painter, and Lidya, a young aristocratic girl who devotes her life to good works.
With Meg Wynn Owen as Lidya, Patrick Stewart as Anton, Brenda Bruce as Ekaterina, Yona Gailit as Liubov, Philip Locke as Belokurov, Emma Williams as Zenya
(Brenda Bruce, David Jones, Philip Locke and Patrick Stewart are members of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
Peter Dorling ; Weather
