Story: "Yawns are Catching" by Mabel Watts
A group of workers from one firm discuss why they each prefer their particular kind of unionism.
Introduced by Patrick O'Brien
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featuring Steeleye Span, Wally Whyton, Y Triban
Recorded at Cesar's Club, Luton
(Colour)
Reporters: Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Pitman, Jack Pizzey, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson
What happens to a marriage when the wife unties the apron strings, goes out to work and then earns more than her husband?
How does a man feel when his wife who has always washed his socks, fed his children and shared his bed suddenly becomes a tycoon? What happens to the children when Dad becomes the housewife? What do they tell their friends? In the first of two programmes, Jeanne La Chard talks to families where Dad stays at home and families where the wife is the major breadwinner.
Joe still pays the bills: page 5
by Thomas Hardy
Dramatised by Rhys Adrian
Starring Billie Whitelaw as Rhoda
with Yvonne Antrobus as Gertrude, Edward Hardwicke as John Lodge and William Relton as Jamie
When Farmer Lodge brings home his new bride, a mysterious enemy awaits to blight their happiness.
(Stories that countrymen tell: pp 78-83)
The machinery of Television News
on behalf of the Labour Party
(Also on BBC1)
The first of a series of six programmes about six different groups of young people who are dissatisfied with the society in which they live and are trying, in their own way, to change it.
The Somers Town Squatters are a loosely knit group of 200-300 young people who have taken over a block of old houses in London and made their homes there.
Way out of society: pages 6-7
Tony Bilbow presents a round-up of the film world and reviews the 25th film in the Carry On series which opens tomorrow.
Philip Jenkinson looks at the work of Canadian film maker Norman McLaren whose early experiments in film animation included drawing on to a strip of film. A retrospective of his work is showing in London next Saturday at the ICA.
Presented by David Holmes with Peter Dorling
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