Story: "1, 2, 3 To the Zoo" by Eric Carle

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)

A series of ten programmes

The 'meaning' we give to housing, its significance and scope, the demands we make upon it, change dramatically as we progress through life. How can these demands be met?
Introduced by John Tusa

'I've been through a hurricane and was absolutely terrified... the noise, the crashing, the scream of the propellers as she comes out of the sea... then let her get a head to find her own way through the next mountain of sea..."
Sylvia Dennison gave up her comfortable home in Orkney and signed on as ship's cook on board the Elwick Bay owned and skippered by her husband Captain Bill Dennison
(BBC Scotland)

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

It's little more than a form of slave labour; doing the dirtiest, the most menial jobs in the affluent societies of Europe today. As prosperity and affluence increase so does the need to import a labour force to do the jobs that the newly rich will no longer consider.
The situation is thought by some to be an international scandal. It's an open secret, for instance, in Germany that the 'guest workers' shipped in from poorer countries are used to do all the dirty jobs. For legions of women there are higher wages than they can earn in Korea, the Philippines and other Third World nations - but at what human cost? What is life like for these women in the cities of Europe who wash the dishes in hotels, change the bedpans in hospitals, scrub the floors in the homes of the middle-classes?
Jeanne La Chard and a Man Alive team have looked at the situation in Germany, Italy and this country: and in the studio Desmond Wilcox meets those responsible.

Starring Shirley Knight, James Caan, Robert Duvall

Natalie Ravenna, unable to face up to the responsibilities of marriage and motherhood, abruptly leaves her husband early one morning and drives off alone to try to solve her problems.

Kenneth Allsop looks at the stories, the issues and the people from the world of newspapers, magazines, publishing and advertising... the media and the messages.

(Colour)

with David Tindall; Weather