Story: "Two Can Toucan" written and illustrated by David McKee

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
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What can be done to take the tedium out of routine work?

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Six films of a jaunt in the sun

Johnny bathes in the gigantic Pacific rollers at Acapulco before setting off for Mexico City. He visits a typical peasant family and learns some home truths about tortillas. At Toluca he finds another bustling Indian market and the film ends on the ancient Aztec pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan.
(From Bristol)

Reporters Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Pitman, Jack Pizzey, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

Throughout the country slums are being torn down and replaced with new and better council housing. But the cost of higher living standards often means higher rents. The authorities who set the rent must face the possibility that the homes which they build to free people from the tyranny of the slum are imposing on them another tyranny - debt. The problem can affect all new council estates and new towns. When one third of a town is behind with the rent something must be wrong.
Tonight Man Alive is at Thamesmead for a filmed report by Jack Pizzey and an outside broadcast discussion chaired by Desmond Wilcox between the GLC, who collect the rents, and the people who live there and say, 'We like it, if only we could afford it.'

Kenneth Allsop introduces a look at the world of information, comment and persuasion.

There are over 100 Westminster Lobby correspondents reporting the goings on behind the scenes of British politics. They have their own rules and operate on sufferance from politicians. Are they just "the messenger boys of British democracy?"
Edition looks at this unique institution of British journalism.

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with John Edmunds
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