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Robert Robinson introduces a weekly look at hardbacks and paperbacks, fact and fiction, best-sellers and remainders.

This week's readers and writers:

Alberto Moravia, author of The Woman of Rome and Two Women, has a new book out, Lady Godiva and Other Stories. At his home in Italy he talks about this and his other work.

Born in Rome in 1907, Moravia was the son of an architect. He wrote his first novel in 1925 and then became foreign correspondent in London and Paris for La Stampa and Gazetta del Popolo. Under Fascism, he had to use a pseudonym and during the German occupation of Italy he hid in the mountains until liberated by the Americans in 1944. He now lives in Rome and Capri.

Yvonne Mitchell calls Colette 'perhaps the most truly liberated woman of the century' in her new illustrated biography Colette - A Taste for Life. She is in the studio to discuss her book.

Book borrowers from a public library in London say what they have been reading this summer.

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Robinson
Interviewee:
Alberto Moravia
Guest:
Yvonne Mitchell
Producer:
Philip Speight
Executive Producer:
Will Wyatt

This week's special feature
Count Basie and his Orchestra with THE CANNONBALL ADDERLEY QUINTET SARAH VAUGHAN AND HER TRIO
JOE WILLIAMS
Count Basie, his Orchestra and soloists AL GREY and JIMMY ' NIGHT TRAIN ' FORREST play the Jazz Ship back to New York. Preceding them, Cannonball Adderley and his Quintet give the answer to the question many viewers have asked: ' What happens when the sea gets rough? ', with a number which used to be called ' Autumn Leaves' now known as ' Thirty-Foot Swell'.
Commentary PETER CLAYTON
Film editors PETER GIBBS , PETER MARSH Producer JOHN DUNCAN (Manchester)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Vaughan
Unknown:
Joe Williams
Unknown:
Peter Clayton
Editors:
Peter Gibbs
Producer:
John Duncan

Starring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix

An ex-serviceman, suspected of killing his unfaithful wife, finds himself fleeing from both the police and a gang of crooks.

Raymond Chandler wrote the original screenplay for this tense thriller, the best of the four films in which Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake starred together.

Films: page 11

Contributors

Screenplay:
Raymond Chandler
Director:
George Marshall
Johnny Morrison:
Alan Ladd
Joyce:
Veronica Lake
Buzz Wanchek:
William Bendix
Eddie Harwood:
Howard Da Silva
Helen:
Doris Dowling
George Copeland:
Hugh Beaumont
Captain Hendrickson:
Tom Powers
'Dad' Newell:
Will Wright

When this remarkable film about the Soviet sculptor Ernst Neizvestny was first shown in 1969, it was the first time an important new series of his drawings had been seen publicly anywhere in the world. Six years later, his work is still not exhibited in Moscow.
John Berger, who introduces this film, has written recently about the continuing difficulties of this highly individual artist.

Contributors

Subject:
Ernst Neizvestny
Presenter:
John Berger
Producer:
John Vas

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