Today's story is "Swimmy" Written and illustrated by Leo Lionni
A second start in mathematics
With Alan Tammadge and Leslie Williams
Bill Coleman is in the chair
with Peter Woods
Weather
They have treasured memories of other times - firm views about present times.
In the race for today few of us spare enough time to listen - even to learn - from people who also know about yesterday, as they talk to Man Alive reporters.
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: Where Can They Go?
They call themselves Gypsies - others call them tinkers, robbers, tax-dodgers, metal spivs, and a dozen other angry names. For centuries they drifted to the West Midlands to find winter quarters. But three years ago one local council decided that its people had had enough. The tinkers would have to go. Since then the council - Walsall in Staffordshire - has been fighting a running war. Now the council has decided to make a final stand. They voted 41-1 to reject a new parliamentary law ordering them and other authorities to provide sites for travellers. Other councils are coming to their support. Anti-tinker action groups have been formed. Now the government is considering action against the councils.
Man Alive brings both sides together in Walsall to ask the question - where can they go?
Introduced by Jack Pizzey
A veterinary surgeon describes what can go wrong in a horse's breathing system.
Another vet is using radio signals and computers to analyse the breathing systems of horses exercising up to three-quarters of a mile away.
by Ian Curteis
[Starring] Rupert Davies as Sir Almroth Wright, Bill Gavin as Alexander Fleming
At 47, Fleming is an eminent biologist. But the shy, introvert qualities that make him a fine researcher don't help him in the battles with his boss, Sir Almroth Wright, to make his greatest discovery - penicillin - into practical form.
