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with Johnny Morris

'The glittering glasshouses of Holland. Mile after mile of tropical growing power. A great and tremendous conjuring trick with glass, sun and silt... And the Rhine brought the silt to start the business going.'
(from Bristol)

A documentary series of six stories in which advisers set out to solve other people's problems.

The maker of a new sports car needs the advice of an advertising agency to promote his car.
The agency decides that the 'image' of the car is too feminine, that a radical sex-change is required. It dreams up a scheme to inject virility into the vehicle. The car's maker must now decide whether to accept the advice...

by F. Tennyson Jesse
Dramatised in four parts by Elaine Morgan

Julia Starling, at 21, is a successful business woman. But she has made an ill-judged wartime marriage. In 1918 she faces the return of her husband from the war.

Awarded the Prix Futura in Gold, Berlin 1973

Each week in British hospitals over 5,000 researchers conduct hundreds of experiments on people. Most of the experiments are done on ordinary patients with common diseases like bronchitis, asthma and heart failure.
How many are carried out for the good of the patients concerned? How many for the benefit of medical science?

Horizon talks both to the new breed of doctor-scientists, and their critics, and looks at several human experiments - at hospitals in London, Birmingham, Edinburgh and New York.

by Michael Abbensetts

The other attendants get through the day easily enough, with their jokes and arguments, but things are different for Howard.

In the seventh programme of this series about the writer's world, Lady Antonia Fraser visits Abbotsford and explores the extraordinary house which was the fulfilment of a Scottish writer's dream.

with John Edmunds
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