Today's story is "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle

(to 19.00)

An introduction to the social sciences

All societies have rules about the way their members should behave. What happens to those who can't, or won't, conform?
Introduced by Derek Hart
(Linked with Radio 3 Friday 7.0 pm. For publications see page 13)

with Peter Woods reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad
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A weekly programme which focuses on people and the situations which shape their lives

Man Alive tonight hands over to an unusual film made by the National Film Board of Canada: Sad Song of Yellow Skin. The title is from a Vietnamese folk song with a sad and catchy tune.

The film is about a group of young Americans who try to live both as and among the Vietnamese in an attempt to undo some of the harm done by prolonged civil war. They introduce us to South Vietnamese people who come to life as individuals in a way that you rarely see in straight war reporting.

Sad Song of Yellow Skin won the Robert Flaherty Award for the best full-length documentary, 1971.

From the League of Champions David Taylor v John Pulman
Third time lucky? Taylor and Pulman, each with two defeats, have a chance for a first victory.
Introduced by Alan Weeks

(from Birmingham)
(Colour)

by John Tilly
with Jack Hedley as Jack Gregory, John Carson as Allen Meredith and Alethea Charlton as Ann Meredith

Research physicist Allen Meredith discovers a process by which he is able to transfer his mind into another man's body, but - the process is reciprocal.

(Colour)

A Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Liberal Party.

The Rt Hon Jeremy Thorpe, MP
(Also on BBC1)

Yes, We Have No Bananas ...or much of anything else for that matter.

This was wartime London, a time when the scale of values was turned upside down and the ordinary things of life became suddenly precious. Rationing was the perfect system devised to ensure fair shares for all, but in its wisdom the government forgot to take the one measure necessary to make the whole thing work - to lock everyone up.

Charlie, a Cockney street-trader, and locals in an East End pub describe some of the fiddles that went on and the antics of that extinct, lovable rogue, The Spiv.
Written and narrated by Benny Green
(Scrimpers and Swindlers: pages 52-55)