Who wouldn’t want to be put out to Grasse?

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33791, 13 March 1975, Page 4

Who wouldn’t want to be put out to Grasse?

It seemed just a little! unfair. A week of cricket ; washed over by rain, the' dreary drizzle on the I window-panes, and a first look at television fori i a fortnight took us to the Villa Pandora, bathed in Mediterranean! sunshine. “A Place in the Sun”, it! j was called — the only new J | evening programme of the] week. A place in the sun it certainly was. They sat about in the south of France, almost always armed with glasses of champagne or a shot of the old vin rouge, and if the Noel Cow-ard-type script the setting demanded was not forthcoming, this new trilogy of plays has inspired a get-up-I and-go feeling in at least, one of its audience. “A Place in the Sun” had] considerable appeal. The set-! tings, about Grasse and|

NATIONAL LINK [lncluding 3YA Christchurch 1690 kilohertz); 2YA Wellington (570 kilohertz); 4YA Dunedin (750 kilohertz) and 3YZ Greymouth (950 kilohertz)! 7 p.m.: Sports News. 7.30: Wellington South Salvation Army Band. 8.0: Faith and Works. 8.30: Weather and News. Checkpoint. 9.0: The Archers. 10.0: Tropic Nights: Bill Wolfgramm and his Hawaiians. 10.30: News, Comment, Weather. 10.45: Dibs in Search of Self (9). 11.0: 8.8. C. News, Commentary. 11.15:* Late Night Variety. 11.45: Arthur Cushen’s DX World. 12.0: News, Weather. 3YC, CHRISTCHURCH (960 kilohertz) 7 p.m.: Britten: Song Cycle: On this Island (words by W. H. Auden): Let the florid music praise; Now the leaves are falling fast: Seascape; Nocturne; As it is plenty*. 7.15: Schumann, arr. Debussy. Six Caoinic Studies. 7.30: Spectrum. 8.0: Recital. At Old St Paul's, Wellington. 9.0: Beethoven Concert. Overture: Egmont. Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat. 9.40: In the Studio. Wolf: Even little things; How many hours have J wasted; Praise to him who created the world; I have a

J Cannes, were alluring. Nearly everyone looked bronzed and fit. The piece had about it the polished quality of much good British television, and it had an interesting .'cast. The development of the story was sometimes a little muddled, and it followed a ; Couple of by-ways which did not seem necessary or usei ful. In fact the story did not .really seem to know where Jit was going until it was all; tidied up quite satisfactorily; at the end. Here and there came a hint of “The Lotus Eaters”/ Sometimes the romance be-1 tween young Armstrong; (played by a handsome Jo-1 seph Blatchley) and Rosemarie Fischer (an engaging’ Zhivila Roche) seemed to be; the principal theme. Then it hinted that Martin’ I Armstrong (Moray Watson); and Alexander Fischer: I (Anton Diffring) might be in; the middle of something like' I “The Odessa File”, But the

I lover in Penna; In the shadow of my tresses; Secrecy; Weyla’s song; The gardener. 10.0: Inflation and the Threat to Western Democracy. Former British Labour :! Government Minister Lord i Chalfont, believes that cer--1 tain aspects of democratic 1 life in Britain are under > threat from the effects of in- : flation. 10.15: Prokofiev Bal- . let. Romeo and Juliet. The . second of three programmes J presenting the' complete : music for this production. 3ZB, CHRISTCHURCH ; (1100 kilohertz) I * 7.30 p.m.: John Hall with Easy Listening Music. 9.2: Sportsline with Warwick Burke. 1 3ZM, CHRISTCHURCH ’ (1400 kilohertz) 6 a.m. to midnight: Music, 1 news hourly, weather, ser--5 vice information, dedications. RADIO AVON (1290 kilohertz) News on the half-hour 6 - a.m. to 9 a.m. Hourly there- . after. In-depth bulletin 12.30 J p.m. 5.30 a.m.: Wayne . Douglas with Breakfast ; Club. 9.0: Jon Campbell and I Morning Music. Noon: Mike j Richardson and afternoon, i'music.

- basis of the play was a 1 familiar but useful message t — youth is trusting, middle- ' age suspicious. It was a change to see Mr ; Diffring out of a Nazi uni- ; form; he seems to have , spent his considerable screen ; career in one. And “A Place ( in the Sun” was a change, I too. There are two more hour-long plays in the . series. They should be of; ; interest, and at least we! I could sit under a sun-lamp: ,ito feel a little more at home. l . It is some weeks since! ! this viewer looked at “Roll; J Out”. It still seemed a pale limitation of “M.A.5.H.”,! even to the touch'of heroics,' j not over-done. This time it! was easier to pick up the. ■ principals’ speech than it was at a first attempt. With a little practice, it should be I possible to understand, everything thev are saying. * * * “Burnper to Bumper” seems to be casting its net a little wider these days. There have been times when it seemed to be aimed only at A grade mechanics. But Tuesday’s programme, dealing with four-wheel drive, vehicles, had some fine out-]' door camera work and an attractive display of near- ' amphibian operations.

A second interview with Edward Woodward in two; days was not too many. He| appeared in “The South Tonight”, with Judy Bailey. Woodward has a lively and interesting personality, and he was allowed a fairly loose rein. He hardly needed any help and was clearly capable of holding viewers’! interest by himself. “The Two Ronnies”! always promise much, but! deliver the, goods inter-; mittently. The Piggy Malonei saga usually has a good moment or two, but perhaps! the strongest pull in the present format is the musical piece at the end. Here, there is the sort of appear radio's “Much Binding In the Marsh” used to have; with its sung jingles. The Ronnies have used this device quite effectively. For a good many viewers,! “Upstairs, Downstairs” isi the highlight of the tele-; vision week. It is of genuine quality in every respect. It, was not a pretty story this, week, or an in-' consequentional one. Just how accurate it is, as al social document, is a matter; for historians to judge. But there were some appalling, Dickensian prison scpnes when Rose was' swept up, cruelly, among! Elizabeth’s suffragettes. That handsome Armenian.; Julius Karekin, made a considerable. impact. The betting, is that he is not destined to; make only one appearance among the Bellamys. Ministers of the Crown and Members of Parliament are busy people. But if they would only spare us one word. . . “The”,

They, and newscasters.! almost invariably say “Government thinks" or “Government proposes” The loss of the article has an over-cosy, “mother knows best”! ring to it which irritates. I Everyone has come to expect politicians to drop occasional bricks. They have no excuse for dropping articles, — R.T.B. j

CHTV3 2.00 p.m.: News, weather. (C). 2.05: Harriet’s Back in Town. Serial. (C). 2.31: The Whiteoaks of Jalna. Drama. (C). 3.22: Scotch Corner. (C). 3.51: Audubon Wildlife Theatre. (C). 4.23: Play School. (C). 4.48: Pippi Longstocking. 5.15: The Adventures of Black Beauty. (C). 5.40: News. (C) 5.45: Dusty’s Trail. Comedy. (C). 6.13: Missing. Salvation Army’s Missing Persons ; Bureau. (C). 6.40: The Thrillseekers. (C). 7.00: Network News. 7.22: Weather. The South Tonight. 7.47: Coronation Street. (C). 8.18: Public Eve. Drama. (C). 9.17: Newsbrief. (C). 9.19: All in the Family. Comedy. (C). 9.49: The Sixth Sinse. Drama. (C). 10.47: Late news, weather. (C).