Have three years of accelerating inflation changed our basic habits in spending, saving and managing our money?
Horizon investigates some of the remarkable new spine research.
with Michael De Morgan
Joan Bakewell, in the first of two programmes about people in need, talks to the lonely and those who are trying to help them, including Louis Alexander, director of 'The Centre,' and David Hobman, director of Age Concern.
The Communist takeover in 1949 led not only to a great urge to modernise but also to a renewed interest in China's past. As a result a dazzling display of Chinese art has been unearthed and some of the most exciting discoveries are about to go on show in London.
To put the exhibition in the context of China past and present, Professor William Watson of London University and Magnus Magnusson journeyed across the vast sub-continent, the first time a foreign film crew had been allowed to get so close to everyday life and to many of the sites where the treasures were discovered.
In this first of two films Watson and Magnusson look at modern China and sketch in its early history
Marco Magnus: page 3. The Chinese Exhibition: the first of two talks, Radio 3, Friday, 8.45 pm
A four-part serial by Colin Morris
Starring Ronald Pickup, Virginia McKenna
Starting in 1914, this is the true-life story of Jack Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk and 13th Earl of Berkshire who, after a dissolute youth, became one of the most remarkable Englishmen of his time, described as 'a mixture between Drake and the Scarlet Pimpernel.'
The eccentric earl: pages 6-7
Written by Eddie Braben
[Starring] Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise
Eric and Ernie's guests Cliff Richard and Vikki Carr
Ernie Wise's Choice: page 5
A comedy film series re-creating the successful feature film
Starring Alan Alda as Hawkeye, Wayne Rogers as Trapper John
Your friendly neighbourhood cupids are at it again. Outwardly happy and jolly, Nurse Edwina is really very sad and lonely. Match-makers extraordinary Hawkeye and Trapper rush to help - forgetting that Edwina is accident prone.
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