Today's story: "Grumble's Glasses" by Cherry Pearce

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)

The series that examines our working lives

Who's for the 4-day working week?

Six films of a jaunt in the sun

'When Hernando Cortez, the Spanish conquistador, first saw this country he said it was the most beautiful in the world... That was 400 years ago and you can muck things about no end in 400 years.'
Mexico City, population six million, is like a cross-section of Mexico crammed into 20 square miles. It is a confusion of ancient and modern, fantastic beauty and grotesque ugliness, incredible wealth and desperate poverty. The people, renowned as the gayest in the world, are also amongst the saddest.
(from Bristol)

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

You used to be lucky to get bread and cheese or a pie with your pint in the pub. Today, along with booze, they serve up go-go girls, topless dancers, strippers, female impersonators and music, music, music. Right now the local is in danger. Big cities are being swamped with disco bars, ideal for those who don't want to talk to each other; popular 'mine hosts' are being replaced by managers; old pubs frequented by old men in old villages are being closed down.
Some people are making a lot of money out of the changes. But a lot more are sad - and angry. Dr Johnson once said: 'There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.' Man contrived it. Is man now destroying it?

Starring Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg
with Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter

A young man recently released from the army applies for a job as a trainee therapist at Poplar Lodge, a mental home for the wealthy. Here he comes under the spell of a beautiful patient, Lilith. Robert Rossen's last film, made in 1964, is a strange and hauntingly beautiful study of madness.
(This Week's Films: page 9)
(Looking for a direction: page 5)

Kenneth Allsop looks at the world of information, comment and persuasion.

(Colour)

Rt Hon Denis Healey, MP for the Opposition
(Denis Healey's Choice: page 5)

with David Tindall; Weather