Wednesday is Pets Day and the story is One was Johnny by Maurice Sendak
(repeated on BBC1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 pm)

Reporting the world tonight

John Timpson and Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents of BBC News
followed by 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: Children from Homes (2)
Few children survive, unscathed, the experience of being rejected by their own parents. Today 70,000 children are living in children's homes. Most of them return to their families as soon as possible, but there are still thousands who spend nearly all their childhood in a home. It is by what happens to these when they leave that we can judge the real success or failure of the institution as a mother substitute
Too many end up rootless and lonely, unable to hold on to either a job or a relationship. Too many, as adults, repeat the pattern of their childhood and end up by putting their own children into care
For those of us brought up in secure family backgrounds it is almost impossible to imagine what it can be like to be out in the world with not one person to whom you felt you belonged
Tonight Man Alive looks into the lives of some of the people who face just this situation - the Children from Homes

(Colour)

Another chance to see Imrat Khan, the famous Indian sitarist, and his tabla player Mahapurush Misra, playing before an invited studio audience
Indian classical music is a highly developed language which expresses itself entirely through melodic themes called rags
In this programme Imrat Khan plays a surbahar solo Rag Darbari Kanada music for the royal court of Akbar and on sitar and tabla, Rag Hamsdhaiani the call of a swan symbolising the ecstasy of the personal soul

(Colour)

Rowan and Martin invite you to laugh-a-second-time at their Laugh-In
This week's star guest, Tiny Tim
and featuring Judy Carne, Arte Johnson, Ruth Buzzi, Henry Gibson, Goldie Hawn, Dave Madden, Gary Owens, Alan Sues, Jo Anne Worley, Muriel Landers and Chelsea Brown
(Colour)

reflects in song on When You Become a Woman
accompanied by The Orchestra
(Colour)

by Nikos Kazantzakis
A second chance to see this dramatisation in six parts by Jack Pulman
Pope Fotis and Manolios have been branded as Bolsheviks by the Bishop. They decided that the only course left open to them was to seize their property by force
(Shown on Saturday)
(Colour)

followed by Weather
(Colour)

Talk, argument, people, diversion with Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley
(Colour)