A programme for children at home
Today's story: 'Swimmy' by Leo Lionni
(to 11.20)
The World Tonight
Reporting John Timpson, Peter Woods
with Martin Bell, Michael Blakey, Michael Clayton, Tom Mangold, Michael Sullivan, David Tindall, Richard Whitmore and the 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, John Pitman,
Gillian Strickland, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson
This week: Born to Lose
A Twilight Zone sounds as though it might be something natural, even attractive. But it's the name given by planners and pundits to a condition of despair. In nearly every city in this country there are Twilight Zones: where the poor are powerless, the needy neglected and the future is dark and without help. Those born into this kind of twilight can expect nothing but the worst schools, the worst hospitals and the worst housing, and should expect nothing more for their children and their children's children. If you get on, you get out. But most are trapped-in a cycle where aspiration, even self-respect, dies young.
In London at Whitsun, some of them marched from one Twilight area to another. While most of us relaxed they tried to protest. Man Alive marched with them and looked at what they are struggling to escape; and asks-is there any way out if you are born to lose?
(Colour)
BBC-2 Knockout Snooker Competition
An introductory programme to the coming seven weeks' single-frame series featuring the world's top eight snooker players:
Gary Owen, Fred Davis (above), Jack Rea, Rex Williams, John Pulman, Kingsley Kennerley, Ray Reardon, John Spencer
...and tonight they're all round the same table!
Rarely can any sport, even on television, offer its supporters the top eight exponents of the game in one fifteen-minute appearance. Tonight BBC-2 does just that. Anyone who knows his snooker will agree that these names tonight are the top in their field.
If, on the other hand, your knowledge of the game is limited then we have the best instructors available to teach you some of the tricks of the table. Instead of a pointer these teachers use a billiard cue-in a very spectacular way-and confirm that they really are the masters.
Introduced by Keith Macklin and Ted Lowe
from the Midlands
(Colour)
Rowan and Martin invite you to laugh-a-second-time at their Laugh-In
This week's star guest: Flip Wilson
and featuring Judy Carne, Arte Johnson, Ruth Buzzi, Henry Gibson, Goldie Hawn, Dave Madden, Gary Owens, Alan Sues, Dick Whittington, Jo Anne Worley, Pigmeat Markham, Chelsea Brown
(Colour)
The American star in the sixth programme in her new series
with special guest, John Hartford
Pan's People
Bobby's guest tonight, the young American singer John Hartford, 'paints' rather than writes his songs. John abandoned his career as a commercial artist to become a song writer - and doesn't regret it. His smash hit 'Gentle on My Mind' won him four major awards last year, and has been recorded by more than 170 artists, including Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra.
(Colour)
by L.N. Tolstoy
A second chance to see this dramatisation in four parts by Alexander Baron
Starring Alan Dobie
Although innocent, Maslova has been sentenced to penal servitude in Siberia. Anxious to atone, Dmitri has initiated an appeal and proposed marriage, but she has refused him.
(Colour)
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The end of today in front of tomorrow
(Colour)
