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There was a time in the early 1970s, when Sunday teatime was, for some, all about News Review with Kenneth Kendal on BBC2 followed by the superlative "The World About Us".

Anyway, tonight at 11pm, BBC4 is showing Desmond Morris' classic "Manwatcher" from the WAU thread, all about non-verbal human communication. It might be interesting to see his original ideas in action.

I'll be watching that


Those were the days. Jackanory, tomorrows world, john cravens news round.

God I'm getting old

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Thanks for the heads up! I enjoy Morris' works .

Well, that was interesting. I'm still not convinced he was 100% right from what I've seen, but I loved the aeroplane section. The long wave, the adjustment period then the personal wave. I thought it was nonsense until he showed more examples of it.

I've definitely done things like that... the busying action at least, I've never really been one for waving myself

A lot of what he said was quite familiar because I've read his Manwatching/Peoplewatching book - I do agree with you, with this sort of thing you've always got to be careful of generalising actions across the board, something which happened once or twice.

But yes - interesting stuff! It's a shame a lot of the programmes nowadays on this matter aren't as illustrative as this.