(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
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with Clive Jacobs; Weather
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Despite the collapse of many big tops under the pressure of rising costs and falling receipts, the Circus is far from dead. Its traditions are carried on by family companies which travel every year across Europe. It's not an easy life. Apart from financial worries, there's the problem of educating children, the lack of security in old age. Yet the lure of the Big Top is stronger than all. Film reports from East and West Europe.
Introduced by Derek Hart
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by Leo Tolstoy
Dramatised in 20 parts by Jack Pulman

The French continued their advanced into Russia and Prince Bolkonsky died while preparing to defend his home. The peasants defied Maria's orders to leave before the French arrived and she was rescued by Nikolai.

(Anthony Hopkins is a National Theatre player)
(Repeated next Saturday evening)
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The French advance into Russia continues and Prince Bolkonsky dies defending his home. Twenty part drama of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel.

People with unusual enthusiasms

Stock car racing in Lancashire has caught on, and beating hell out of his 'mod stock' is Dave Neil's idea of a good Sunday out.
(from Manchester)
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This year 7,000 people will die of chronic kidney failure. Many could be saved. It's a national tragedy - and largely avoidable. Two medical advances of the 1960s - the kidney machine and kidney transplant - brought new hope. But treatment has become a cruel lottery in which only 600 patients will get the kidney machine they need to live. Even fewer will get a transplant.
Horizon shows for the first time an actual transplant operation, showing the skill of the surgeons who can give life to the lucky few. But why so few?
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Match your musical wits tonight against Valerie Pitts, Richard Baker, Robin Ray
Guest musician George Malcolm
Chairman Joseph Cooper

[Repeat]
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The sweet-voiced 'soldier of the heart' includes her songs 'Jesus was a Cross-maker,' 'Enchanted Sky Machines' and 'The Kiss.'
(Judee Sill is also on R1, Sat 6.30 pm)
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The Welsh look wryly at themselves and others in the first of two programmes of verse recorded in the company of the 'regulars' at the Rose and Crown Inn, Eglwys Ilan, Glamorgan.
Spoken by Ryan Davies, Geraint Wyn Davies, David Lyn

(Second programme: Friday, 11.25 pm)
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