10.10 Countdown to the OU: 4

10.35 Childhood 5-10: Family Matters

11.0 The First Years of Life - The World at One

11.25 Energy in the Home - Cutting Your Losses

11.50 Open Forum: Lecture by Professor Michael Pentz

Wales, having had a narrow victory over England, will be looking for a more convincing win over Scotland, whose performance against France left much to be desired in their defensive game. The French, after that victory, will have much sterner opposition against the Irish, who are the dark horses in the Championship.

Commentator in Edinburgh, Bill McLaren
Commentator in Dublin, Nigel Starmer-Smith

Do you know someone dying of a terminal illness? Horizon visits Countess Mountbatten House, a hospice, where the care and understanding of the staff can help patients to discover a new way of living. A group at St. Thomas's Hospital in London is trying to incorporate hospice philosophy into the hospital system.
(Shown last Monday)

Stephen Spender offers his personal view of the play in which a world of innocence is shattered by an explosion of pathological jealousy.

(Shown last Tuesday)

Written and presented by General Sir John Hackett, GCB, CBE, DSO, MC

In 1940 George VI instituted a new medal which was to be called the George Cross. This last programme in the series looks at some of the men and women who have received the George Cross and at the circumstances in which the medal was awarded.
(Repeat)

Dramatic winter sports action featuring high-speed competition in the World Cup: Men's Downhill and Ladies' Downhill, from Schladming, Austria

The last downhill races of a spectacular European season take place this weekend on the courses where next year's World Championships will be decided, giving the world's fasters skiers an extra incentive. Commentator David Vine.

A digest of the news of the week plus sub-titles for those who cannot hear. With Kenneth Kendall.

Presented by Brian Widlake and Valerie Singleton

Including a report on the building of Futurehome 2000. Construction of The Money Programme energy-saving house has now begun in earnest. Valerie Singleton reports on its progress.

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Continues a season of films heralding the 70s.
Starring Alan Bates and Janet Suzman

Peter Nichols, who is himself the father of a handicapped child, wrote this screen version of his powerful and controversial play showing the effect of the severely handicapped on the lives of those close to them.

Brian and Sheila have invented a character for their daughter since she will never have one of her own, and the desperate, bitter humour with which they involve her in their conversations ill conceals the strain on their marriage. One evening, their pretence of leading a natural life is shattered.

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