The poet and novelist gives Monitor a sample of her twisted, darkly comic style. A good time is had by all. Originally broadcast 6 April 1965 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qStYBOOzchw

Le Voyage Dans la Lune (Trip to the Moon, in English) is perhaps Georges Méliès‘ most famous film, and is considered to be the first science fiction film in cinematic history. The 12 minute film follows a group of astronomers who travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule, explore the Moon’s surface, escape from an underground group of native moon inhabitants (known as Selenites), and return to Earth with one of them as captive. While at once a spoof of more serious science fiction, the film can also be seen as a comment on France’s colonial exploits (it was at the time the world’s second largest colonial power). Méliès himself plays, as was his wont, the main role of the wonderfully named Professor Barbenfouillis. When asked in 1930, Méliès cited Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon as the main influences for the film, but cinema historians have also mentioned the influence of Adolphe Dennery’s stage adaption of Verne, and also H. G. Wells’s The First Men in the Moon, a French translation of which was published only a few months before Méliès made the film. Jacques Offenbach’s operetta Le voyage dans la lune (an unauthorized parody of Verne’s novels) and also the “A Trip to the Moon” attraction at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, have also been talked of as being possible inspiration. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBExXhcVGGE

Panorama | Cuba Castro celebrates 10 years since the first uprising against the former regime. CHANNEL | BBC Television Service FIRST BROADCAST | 29 July 1963 SYNOPSIS 'Panorama' reports from Cuba on the celebrations held to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of when Castro first rose up against the Batista dictatorship. In the process, reporter James Mossman reviews the current way of life for the Cuban people in and around Havana and asks whether Castro remains as popular as when he first took up arms on 26 July 1953. DID YOU KNOW? Castro was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the 26 July uprising of 1953. On his early release he continued to lead the resistance against President Fulgencio Batista, whose regime had denied him the chance to run in democratic elections. In command of a small guerrilla force called the 26 July Army, he eventually defeated the government and took power on New Year's Day 1959. Among the original members of the small force that landed on the shores of Cuba to start a revolution was Che Guevara. CONTRIBUTORS James Mossman - Reporter Houari Boumedienne - Contributor Fidel Castro - Contributor David Wheeler - Producer ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPeMKncfo_4

26 October 1958 This interview shows the author at his genial and self-deprecating best. Wodehouse cheerfully discusses his long writing career, his eschewal of 'serious' fiction and the lack of sex in his books. The wartime broadcasts referred to in this interview occurred when Wodehouse and his wife were trapped at their home in France by the outbreak of World War II. The couple were interned by the Germans until 1941, when Wodehouse was released and taken to Berlin, where he was tricked into making light-hearted broadcasts to the US about his experiences as a prisoner. Although the transmissions were innocuous, public opinion in the UK and America believed Wodehouse to be a collaborator and even a Nazi sympathiser. All charges against him were later investigated by MI5 and found to be untrue. As the Foreign Office report said, 'Mr Wodehouse made the celebrated broadcasts in all innocence and without any evil intent.' ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAPY1kNFiBY