Story: "The Fox and the Crow"
Guest storyteller Elisabeth Welch

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)

A series of ten programmes

The interventions of government, at national and local level, are varied, widespread, often unforeseen and unintended, and neither comprehensive nor consistent.
Introduced by John Tusa

'He doesn't wave a Bible at them. He just offers a friendly face.' John Kao tells the story of his father, Rev Peter Kao, who is Chinese Chaplain at the Missions to Seamen. He and his wife Jenny provide a home from home in Ethel Road, E16, where students, nurses, and seamen can play Chinese billiards and Chinese chess, cook mountains of chop suey and imagine they are back home.

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

This week: Someone from the Welfare... To Do What?
Social Work is a growth industry: each day thousands of social workers, some professional, some voluntary, attempt to unravel the lives of their 'clients.'
Some critics say they are merely papering over the cracks. Should they be more involved? Social workers themselves are becoming unsure of their role. They know they are needed, but to do what? Social workers inside and outside the formal system, self-confessed revolutionaries, lecturers in sociology, are among the people with Desmond Wilcox in the studio tonight to discuss the issues raised by last night's Tuesday's Documentary on BBC1.

Starring Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell
with Carol Marsh

Set in the seaside town at the height of the holiday season, Brighton Rock is the story of Pinkie Brown, a vicious young gang leader who plans the murder of a journalist responsible for the death of another hoodlum.

This Week's Films: page 9

The West Somerset Free Press has been family-owned for all its 113 years and likes to think it prints "as much small news as any paper in the country". It runs reports on skittles, hunting, golden weddings, but no leading articles - "We never take sides", says the editor, Jack Hurley, who's been on the paper for 43 years.

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with John Edmunds
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