starring Bourvil, Philippe Noiret, and Claude Rich
This rural comedy about a cantankerous peasant and his dimwitted son who prevent a group of speculators from turning their village into a new township is quick, witty and unmistakably Rene Clair.
It also gives British viewers a chance to see the famous French actor Bourvil at his best
Contributors
Directed By: Rene Clair
Mathieu: Bourvil
Toine: Bourvil
Martial Dumont: Bourvil
Victor Hardy: Philippe Noiret
Fred: Claude Rich
Jules: Alfred Adam
Rose: Annie Fratellini
Stella: Colette Castel
Highlights of the traditional Easter clash between Cardiff and the Barbarians, at Cardiff Arms Park
What is the truth about 'the lost secrets' of the mysterious Yugoslav-American genius, NikolaTesla? It was Tesla, not Edison, who invented the method of transmitting electricity which makes the 20th century work. And, back in the 1890s, Tesla also demonstrated wireless two years before Marconi, electric lamps without wires, and radio-controlled machinery.
Now a growing number of Tesla enthusiasts claim that his later research was 80 years ahead of its time. Did he find a way to make ball lightning? A secret weapon for use in submarine warfare? A method of remotely controlling human personality? Some of Tesla's most spectacular and hair-raising experiments are recreated by presenter Robert Symes as he explores the world of this forgotten genius
Contributors
Presenter: Robert Symes
Horizon Editor: Graham Massey
Film Editor: Michael Casey
Producer: Robin Bootle
method of transmitting electricity which makes the 20th century work. And, back in the 1890s, Tesla also demonstrated wireless two years before Marconi, electric lamps without wires, and radio-controlled machinery.
Zeffirelli's sweet evocation of the early life of St Francis of Assissi, with Graham Faulkner and Judi Bowker being mystical among the birds and the bees
Whist lads, howd yor gobs, it's Kevin Crossley-Holland telling the awful story of the dragon of Chester-le·Street in County Durham. Sir John Lambton, a Crusading knight, killed the beast and found his family cursed for nine generations. There's no justice in folklore
Last in Oliver Hunkin 's series about the Easter story as reflected in great paintings. Today: The Supper at Emmaus
Nick Clarke on the struggle to keep Triumph motor bikes on the road at Meriden
Penelope Wilton plays the only begetter of Peter Rabbit, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, the Flopsy Bunnies and the rest in John Hawkesworth's dramatisation of Margaret Lane's much praised biography. The play tells both of the creation of those familiar story-book characters and also of the private life of Ms Potter: secret love affair with a tragic ending; subsequent happy marriage; success as writer and sheep-breeder. Narration by Michael Hordern, music by Carl Davis
The Work. The second in the five-part series looks at employment - or lack of it - in the city. Where has the traditional political militancy of the area's unions gone? The big battle now, it seems, is against a shoulder-shrugging, stoical acceptance of fate
Last of the three-movie Woody Allen season, starring Woody Allen, Louise Lasser and Carlos Montalban.
Fielding Mellish, tired of his job and disappointed with his sex life. impulsively takes off to join the rebel forces in the small South American state of San Marcos - and is soon hilariously and outrageously caught up in the revolutionary turmoil.
Contributors
Written By: Mickey Rose
Written By: Woody Allen
Produced By: Jack Grossberg
Directed By: Woody Allen
Fielding Mellish: Woody Allen
Nancy: Louise Lasser
General Vargas: Carlos Montalban
Yolanda: Natividad Abascal
Esposito: Jacobo Morales
Luis: Miguel Suarez
Sanchez: David Ortiz
Miss Fitzgerald sings George and Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, and Rogers and Hart. Introduced by Andre Previn
