The Valley Of The Po

A journey along Italy's most important river. Narrated by RENE CUTFORTH Two thousand years ago the River Po was where southern civilisation stopped and northern barbarism began. It is still a dividing line nowadays between a practical hard-working north and a sensuous, artistic, holidaymaker's south. But in the valley of the Po the people are united in one essential - a love of beauty in all forms. Tonight's film examines some of the ways in which they try to apply this approach to life.