A programme for children at home
Today's story: 'Black Dolly' by Charles Keeping
Repeated on BBC-1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 p.m.
(to 11.20)
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(to 15.45)
There are several handling drills you should have mastered before you make plans to set off in your cruiser.
Introduced by Alec Miller
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The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents of BBC News
followed by The Weather
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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: An Everyday Story of Country Folk
Most people have a view of life in the country that doesn't match reality...
Fact: One farmworker in jour earns less than £13 a week (the minimum wage is only £12.8s.0d.)
Fact: A peculiar wages permit system allows some farmers to have their workers' downgraded and pay them even less than this
Fact: One-quarter of general farm workers with more than three children live below the official poverty level
Fact: Because of the 'tied' cottage system, some farm workers' do not even have complete job security and freedom (if a man loses his job he can lose his home, too)
Fact: 35,000 men a year are getting out of farm work, leaving these conditions for jobs in the cities
Fact: The National Union of Agricultural Workers frequently has its hands tied and seems helpless, partly because it has so few members and partly because its members are so scattered
Tonight Man Alive comes from the Old Crown Court, Dorchester, in which, 135 years ago, six men of the land who became known as the 'Tolpuddle Martyrs' were convicted for trying to organise a protest against farmworkers' pay and conditions. Their sentence, then, was transportation to Australia. And tonight Man Alive asks: are farm workers still an oppressed minority a century and a half later?
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It has been estimated that four tons of teeth are extracted from British children in one year and that out of 100 schoolchildren two will have no dental fillings or decay.
In tonight's programme the Consultant Physician introduces a Consultant Dental Surgeon and a Senior Lecturer in Dentistry. They discuss the treatment of decay and show some of the advances in methods of restoring teeth.
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Tonight: The 1949 production The Kissing Bandit
starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, J. Carrol Naish, Mildred Natwick
The son of a famous bandit proves to be a big disappointment to his father's gang when they discover he can barely ride a horse, doesn' drink, and is timid with women.
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Introduced by David Coleman
A recording of the world's most famous racing classic, run at Epsom this afternoon
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The end of today in front of tomorrow
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