A programme for children at home
Today's story: "The Happy Owls" by Celestino Piatti
(Repeated on BBC-1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 p.m.)
(Colour)
(to 11.20)

Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News.

Followed by The Weather

(Colour)

A weekly programme which focuses on people and the situations which shape their lives
Reporters: Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Gillian Strickland, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

This week: The Squatters - 1
Noisy and violent-protesting and demonstrating-arguing with the police and authorities. The Squatters are a militant group, growing in size, who put homeless families into empty buildings-then barricade them in. They usually pick target property belonging to local councils to draw attention to their cause-the plight of the homeless.
Cathy Come Home may have stirred the conscience of the nation, but more than two years later the situation has grown worse rather than better. Council waiting-lists have lengthened, the army of homeless has increased in size. Nobody denies the acuteness of the problem. But is the Squatters' way the best way to do something about it? Militant action certainly makes headlines but will it cure the condition? In the first of two programmes Man Alive examines the Squatters and how they operate.
(Colour)

with Percy Thrower
from Clacks Farm, Boreley, Worcestershire
(Colour)

A selection of musical milestones from the golden days of the silver screen
Tonight: the 1949 production A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Starring Bing Crosby
with William Bendix, Rhonda Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke

Mark Twain's amusing story of a handyman from Connecticut who in 1910, following a fall from his horse, finds himself in sixth-century Camelot at the court of King Arthur.
(Colour)

(Colour)

The end of today in front of tomorrow with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley and tonight's guests
(Colour)