First transmitted in 1986, Houses Fit for People looks at housing and where the modern movement went wrong with their high-rises and modern concrete estates. The fame and fortune of top contemporary architects is largely based on monumental institutional structures - towering office blocks, new hotels and some museums. But what's happening to housing? Ugly, second-rate homes seem to have been the rule rather than the exception in our towns and cities. Now there's an increasing demand for a humane approach to the places we live in, to let some care shine through.The changes so far are small, and rarely hit the headlines. Nevertheless, there can be exciting and even spectacular innovations in housing. The controversial Richard Bofill calls his houses on the outskirts of Paris 'castles for the poor'. The new towns of France feature interesting new homes by Henri Gaudin and Roland Castro ; in Germany Hans Hollein and 0. M. Ungers experiment with new town social housing schemes; while in England clean modern estates based on the findings of the modern movement have little chance of surviving, faced with people's preference for a quaint brick vernacular, aping 19th-century cottages. Narrator ANDREW SACHS