The director's reflections on the modern politics of the Reagan administration.

In the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and amid the stunning natural beauty of India’s Andaman and Nicobar islands, an elderly British teacher struggles to run a small primary school despite the loss of many of the islands’ children to the recent tragedy.

Fedor Fedorovich and Avdotya Nikitishna lived together for fifty years, raised four children, but never found the time to formalize their relationship and get a marriage certificate like everyone else. It was only when Fedor Fedorovich went to the village council to arrange documents for his pension that it became clear that among all the papers, there was no marriage certificate.

The care facilities for the elderly in a small town in Gifu prefecture, and the comparison with the welfare in Denmark, Sweden and Australia.

Though he is near death, blind Rene, an elderly Italian-French intellectual, continues to make his annual conference abroad accompanied by his self-centered loyal, beautiful assistant Sibilla who may or may not be his lover. Rene's domineering mother strongly disapproves of Sibilla and his continual galavanting, but Rene disregards her and goes anyway. While in Spain, Sibilla falls for a handsome young toreador who also captures the interest of Rene, though it is hard to say whether his feelings for the bullfighter are fatherly or more romantic. It is also unclear as to whether Sibilla and the bullfighter are lovers either. Thus an enigmatic romantic triangle forms until Rene and Sibilla suddenly decide to wed. The character of Rene seems to be closely patterned after Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.

For more then 20 years Charles Manson has refused to communicate to the outside world. Until now. These are actual never before heard phone conversations between Canadian best selling author Marlin Marynick and Charles Manson.

In the South, convicts get a temporary release to help during a flood.

Prince Charles tells a group of children the story of the Old Man of Lochnager, based on the book he wrote.

Commemorative program for the 25th anniversary of the live broadcast of the ascent of the Old Man of Hoy. In July of 1967, 15 million people watched one of the most audacious BBC outside broadcasts ever undertaken - the climbing of the 'Old Man of Hoy'. Chris Bonnington and Tom Patey, took the East Face; Joe Brown and Ian McNaught-Davis, the South Face; Peter Crew and Douglas Haston took the South-East Arête. A further crew of four climbers- Hamish MacInnes, John Cleare, Rusty Baillie and Ian Clough carried cameras and transmitters. 25 years later, BBC gathers the protagonists to recover the footage and to look back on the achievement.

Dave Bathgate, Dorothy Wood, Cynthia Grindley, and Joe Brown climb the Old Man of Stoer, a rock stack on the Sutherland coast (Scotland), miles away from anywhere. An episode of the Mountain Days series produced by the BBC: a series of six programs where viewers were invited to sample the outdoor life in the company of a collection of 'mountain people'.