"Now Everyone Loves Woodpecker" by Mabel Watts
Illustrated by Mina Martinez

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)

A series of ten programmes

All housing policies tend to be put to this test: how many houses can we produce a year?
Introduced by John Tusa

Weather

Harold Riley is an artist with an international reputation. He lives and works in his native Salford and his affection for the city and its people is strongly reflected in his work... The tiny corner shops, the cobbled streets and the old woman with the world in her eyes.
Portraits commissioned by the famous pay him upwards of £1,500, but Salford's city life and its city people will always be his first love.
(from Manchester)

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

George Plimpton is familiar to American viewers for his have-ago-at-anything approach. He has chanced his arm on the flying trapeze at the circus; in Las Vegas he has tried his luck as a stand-up comic, and in Africa he has stalked the world's largest elephant.
This week he enters the Mexican 1,000-in a dune-buggy. In preparation for this gruelling race he consults Jackie Stewart and helps him in the pits at the Monza Grand Prix.

Starring Howard Keel, Dolores Gray, Ann Blyth, Vic Damone
with Monty Woolley, Sebastian Cabot

In old Baghdad a wily beggar-poet uses his ingenuity to bring him wealth, and a prince for his daughter's hand.

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on behalf of the Conservative and Unionist Party
(Also on BBC1)

Kenneth Allsop looks at the world of publishing.

(Colour)

with John Edmunds; Weather