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Robert Robinson introduces a further selection of highlights from past editions of The Book Programme.
This week, Jan Morris talks about her remarkable autobiography, Conundrum. Jan Morris was formerly JAMES MORRIS , the writer and journalist, who, at the age of 45, finally, achieved a purpose and ambition, felt since childhood, to become a woman. ' I think it's a magical thing that has happened to me - to have such a happiness and fulfilment given to one halfway through life.'
Also, the late Cyril Connolly on F. Scott Fitzgerald , Margaret Powell on Marcel Proust , and Nicol Williamson reads from Tolkien's The Hobbit.
Producer Philip SPEIGHT
Executive producer WILL WYATT

Contributors

Introduces:
Robert Robinson
Talks:
Jan Morris
Unknown:
Jan Morris
Unknown:
James Morris
Unknown:
Cyril Connolly
Unknown:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Margaret Powell
Unknown:
Marcel Proust
Producer:
Philip Speight

Tonight's film in the season Images of Childhood starring Jean-Pierre Leaud.
Twelve-year-old Antoine Doinel meets with sarcasm and ignorance at school and indifference and conflict at home. He seeks escape in playing truant with his friend.
This Week's Films: page 13

Contributors

Writer/Director:
François Truffaut
Antoine Doinel:
Jean-Pierre Leaud
His mother:
Claire Maurier
His father:
Albert Remy
Schoolmaster:
Guy Decomble
Rene:
Patrick Auffay

Narrated by PHILIP WAYRE
Otters are most entertaining animals. They're also intelligent and beautifully adapted to living on land as well as in water, so it seems that they would make excellent pets ... but otters are so demanding that only the most patient and understanding of animal lovers can keep them without their homes being torn to pieces and their daily routines shattered by the otters' inquisitive and playful antics. In this film we meet some of the small but happy band of otter enthusiasts who have a house full of otters.
Producer CHRISTOPHER parsons (Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Wayre

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