February 25, 1981 (page 23 of 40)

‘TV listings’

‘Programme guide by Celia Brayfield’

Listing for ‘I Heard it Through The Grapevine’ on at 8:30pm on ITV. Description of the programme is as follows:

‘One of those writers-return documentaries featuring the gay black American novelist James Baldwin returning to the Deep South for the first time since the Sixties. Baldwin’s brother David also has a prominent part to play in the one-and-a-half hour film. It turns out that the writer’s connection with the South is emotional rather than historical – he comes from New York and has passed the years since his days of Martin Luther King in France. In TV Times Baldwin confesses that while making the film he was “Terrified of death. This country kills its leaders”’.