Today's story is "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Colour)
(to 19.00)
with Peter Woods reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad
Weather
A singer and his songs
Ralph McTell sings 'In some way I loved you, 'Dancing Doreen,' 'First and last man.'
(Colour)
Reporters: James Astor, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Pitman, Denis Tuohy, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson
This week: Father Alone
When families break up it is usually Mother who looks after the children. And when the reason is separation or divorce it was usually, in the past, Mother who was given the custody. But nowadays there has been a change, and more and more often fathers are given custody; fathers are being allowed to be mother too.
But can a father alone ever really succeed where a mother and a father together have failed? How do men cope?
James Astor and a Man Alive film team have looked at three fathers bringing up their children alone: one employed, one unemployed, one self-employed: all with different situations, but all facing fundamentally the same problems.
Johnny Morris visits some of the islands in the Pacific Ocean.
"The national characteristic is still strong enough and charming enough to inject a little delight into the strict functional world that is imposing itself on everyone here."
Known as 'The Big Island,' Oahu is the main holiday island with the capital, Honolulu, and the legendary Waikiki Beach.
Johnny sees girls dancing Hula, dolphins towing a canoe, and macaws riding a bicycle.
(from Bristol)
by Derek Marlowe
A historical documentary series
[Starring] Kenneth Haigh and John Quentin
In 1856 Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke arrived at the island of Zanzibar, the starting point of the first great journey into the heart of Africa.
By 4 pm on 12 July, 1971, some 30,000 people had marched five miles through the streets of Belfast, with bands playing and banners flying, to commemorate an event that took place 281 years ago. The previous night, those who were not singing or dancing would have been woken from their sleep by a series of explosions.
To be in Belfast during the Orange March on 12 July is always an experience. This year, there were many who wondered what kind of experience.
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