Omnibus presents Lillian Hellman, one of America's major playwrights, talking to Peter Adam at her New England home. A legend in her lifetime, Miss Hellman was recently portrayed by Jane Fonda in the film Julia. Her plays, her political stands and her extraordinary life have kept her in the limelight for the last 40 years. A friend of Dorothy Parker and Dashiell Hammett , of Eisenstein, Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald , LILLIAN HELLMAN has fought, drunk and celebrated with many show business and literary personalities. At 72 she is still as formidable, angry, tender, witty and tough as she has always been. Including extracts from some of her plays.

Omnibus presents the TV premiere of Franco Rosso's highly-praised film, made for the Arts Council. In Jamaica the poet is the voice of the people: 'toaster' poets chant improvised lines to a backing of reggae music at dance halls, parties, anywhere people go to enjoy themselves. Linton Kwesi Johnson, born in Jamaica now resident in London, is a poet, writer and musician whose style is rooted in the Jamaican tradition in which art, society, politics and music are inextricably bound together. This is a film not only about Linton Johnson but also about the community to which he addresses himself, the Black working-class community in London. 'I don't believe that politics changes anything ... You could write a thousand songs but that won't bring about the revolution.'

Omnibus presents John Berger's moving and beautiful stories about peasant life. Photographs by Jean Mohr. For the past five years John Berger, one of our most acclaimed and original writers, has been living and working among peasants in the French Alps. His new book. Pig Earth, grew out of this experience. For years, too, the distinguished Swiss photographer Jean Mohr has been photographing peasants all over the world. This is Berger's first television appearance since his award-winning series Ways of Seeing. In part one, he tells his own stories about his neighbours, the village peasants. In part two, he talks with Teodor Shanin, a world authority on peasant societies, about their political and historical significance in the modern world.

Schalken the painter sees his one true love, Rose, wedded by contract for a sum of money to a man who may or may not be a demon. When she escapes and returns home,she is pursued by her demon lover.....