Life and times

A retired army colonel and a charismatic ancient mariner, Mr Green, voice their objections to plans for building an open prison in Stiffkey, North Norfolk.

The bishop discusses why capital punishment is wrong and talks about his revulsion at the hanging of 19-year-old Derek Bentley in 1953. He predicts, correctly, that hanging for murder will be abolished within a few years.

A professor from the University of Berkeley, California thinks that Cambridge is catching up with the times by introducing sociology as an academic subject.

At the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, its founding director Professor Frank Debenham talks about being a scientist with Scott’s last expedition and his friendship with Ernest Shackleton.

At a crowded department store in Norwich (later to become Debenhams) Anglia TV’s Dick Joice plays Santa to the children and male customers seek help with buying underwear for their wives.

US evangelist Billy Graham was at the height of his popularity in 1967 when his London ‘crusade’ was screened live to audiences throughout Britain. Many of the people who flocked to cinemas to see him were instantly converted.

In this report, two vicars disagree: one describes Graham as a ‘cleaned-up Alf Garnett’ while the other argues that at least Graham attracts people to religion.

In this Anglia TV report on Billy Graham, the reporter finds out from two Norfolk men whether being converted has a lasting effect.

The first of two reports following the story of a 10-year-old Kings Lynn boy who is waiting for a kidney transplant at Guy’s hospital in London. In the first, his father recounts how a nightmare car journey and lack of co-operation from emergency services resulted in them failing to get there in time.

In this second report, the boy talks about the difference the operation will make to his life when it eventually happens.

One year before D-Day, preparations were proceeding smoothly for the conversion of Britain’s currency from pounds, shillings and pence to a system with units of ten. But would there be a hike in prices, and how easy would it be to understand the new money?