A programme for children at home
Today's story: 'Little Bear and Emily' from 'Little Bear's Friends' by Else Holmelund Minarik
Pictures by Maurice Sendak
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(to 11.20)

The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
followed by The Weather
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A series of highly personal films

Do we just like Travel for its own sake? Are we increasingly obsessed with the desire for encapsulated movement? As members of the moving world, do we believe ourselves to be superior to those who are left standing outside?

Michael Frayn, novelist and play-wright, believes that we do, and demonstrates his belief through the trials and journeys of Benson, latest addition to his gallery of contemporary characters.
With Patrick Kavanagh, Deirdre Turner, Anna Wing, and Frank Forsyth

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[Starring] Joe Brown as Fred Manson, Anna Calder-Marshall as Gracie Carter,
Jerome Willis as Ned Preston
(Gerald James is a National Theatre player)

For years the Carters scrimped and saved, and over the years their drapery business prospered. Their only daughter, Gracie, was given the chances and opportunities denied to her parents; her future was assured and predictable until she met and fell in love with an ordinary postman, Fred Manson.
(Next Tuesday: Mother Love)
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In the fifth programme of this series an Italian television team from RAI-tv in Rome looks at Britain through the eyes of an Italian girl over here as a visitor to the country. The reporter, Gaio Fratini, entitles his film The British Woman

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