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6.50 Before Einstein.
8.55 Rules Rule, OK!
9.20 Towards One Force of Nature.
10.10 Forum with the Vice-Chancellor.
10.35 Consumer Decisions: Serve you Right!
11.0 Governing Schools: The Community.
11.25 Health Choices: See-Saw.
11.50 Caring for Older People: Voluntary Workers.
12.15 Maths Methods: Ill-Conditioning.

How do you break into a bank, learn about your boss's private life or locate a Russian nuclear test site? With a home computer. All these illegal activities have actually happened. "Horizon" looks at efforts to prevent this, and to preserve our privacy in this brave new electronic world.

Contributors

Narrator:
Martin Jarvis
"Horizon" Editor:
Graham Massey
Written and produced by:
John Groom

Schubert's Piano Quintet'The Trout'
This series of music for quintet continues with one of the best-known of all chamber music compositions. Members of the Melos Quartet of Stuttgart are joined by Peter Frankl (piano) and Georg Hortnagel (double-bass) in Schubert's Piano Quintet in A (D 667)
Sound RON ALLAN
Lighting JAMES MAIDEN
Producer MIKE Newman BBC Scotland

Contributors

Piano:
Peter Frankl
Piano:
Georg Hortnagel

Nigel Starmer-Smith introduces highlights from yesterday's internationals. Scotland v England from Murrayfield, Edinburgh
The oldest rugby international now played for the Calcutta Cup celebrates its 100th match. Scotland, led by jim AITKEN and buoyant after their victory over Wales, face England, who enter the championship with the sweet memory of their first home victory over New Zealand in November. Commentator BILL MCLAREN with BILL BEAUMONT Ireland v Wales from Lansdowne Road, Dublin
Both sides were beaten in their opening matches, but the Irish will be looking to maintain their three-year undefeated home record.
Commentator NIGEL STARMER-SMITH with GARETH EDWARDS
TV presentation:
Scottish rugby BILL MALCOLM
(Organised by the SRU in association with the Royal Bank of Scotland) Irish rugby RTE
Series producer HUW JONES

Contributors

Introduces:
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Unknown:
Jim Aitken
Commentator:
Bill McLaren
Commentator:
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Unknown:
Gareth Edwards
Unknown:
Bill Malcolm

High-speed winter sports action and superb scenery from the mountain slopes of Europe, today featuring: The World Cup Men's Downhill from Cortina d'Ampezzo, and The Men's Slalom from Borovets
In the psychological battle for supremacy before their quest for Olympic medals later this week, the world's top downhillers are in the Italian Dolomites while the slalom specialists compete on the Rila mountains of Bulgaria.
TV presentation by the Italian and Bulgarian TV services.

Contributors

Commentator:
David Vine
Producer:
Jim Reside

Brian Widlake and Valerie Single ton with LUKE CASEY , NICK CLARKE ,
BILL KERR ELLIOTT , MARK ROGERSON Including this week:
It's Only a Game: why Britain will soon be invaded by the National Survival Game - which gives jaded American executives the chance of playing a 1980s version of cowboys and Indians; and Knocking Copy: how attacking the competition has become an increasingly popular marketing ploy.
Director SUE MCMAHON
Deputy editor MICHAEL HOGAN Editor RICHARD TAIT

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Widlake
Unknown:
Valerie Single
Unknown:
Luke Casey
Unknown:
Nick Clarke
Unknown:
Bill Kerr Elliott
Unknown:
Mark Rogerson
Editor:
Michael Hogan
Editor:
Richard Tait

for the Marley Trophy
Introduced by Peter Alliss
Tom Watson , one of the game's most successful and respected players, is joined by the big-hitting Australian Greg Norman to lead teams of celebrity partners. This week's match, features James Hunt , former World Champion in Grand Prix motor racing, with his highly competitive approach as he partners Tom-formidable opposition for Peter Cook.
Assistant producer DEREK MARTIN Television presentation
RICHARD TILLING and ALASTAIR SCOTT
Executive producer HAROLD ANDERSON

Contributors

Introduced By:
Peter Alliss
Introduced By:
Tom Watson
Unknown:
Greg Norman
Unknown:
James Hunt
Unknown:
Peter Cook.
Unknown:
Richard Tilling
Unknown:
Alastair Scott
Producer:
Harold Anderson

The 1983 International Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival
Two thousand years ago the Chinese poet and statesman Chu Yuan threw himself into a river as a protest against corruption. The local fishermen took to their boats, splashing with their oars and tossing dumplings into the water to distract the monsters and fish from the hero's body. Now it is an international event in Hong Kong attracting nine overseas teams, including Great Britain, as well as around 80 local teams. Narrated by David Vine
Assistant producer DAVID ROSS
Producer PETER HYLTON CLEAVER

Contributors

Unknown:
Chu Yuan
Producer:
David Ross
Producer:
Peter Hylton Cleaver

A series of 13 programmes which tell the story of the theatre from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Written and presented by Ronald Harwood 2: Enter Dionysus
The birth of the drama as an art in Ancient Greece. Never has so much theatrical energy been released in so short a time in a single place; it resulted in an art form which is the basis of modern drama.
This programme evokes the spirit of Dionysus, the god of the theatre, reveals an ingredient common to all Greek drama, the Chorus, and looks at the plays of three great tragic playwrights - Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Extracts from The Oresteia and The Bacchae - among the most momentous scenes in all drama - were specially filmed in the amphitheatres of Epidauros and Dodoni.
Those taking part include
Edward Fox , Terence Stamp
Melina Mercouri, Michael Elliott Karolos Koun and the Greek Art Theatre
Film editor MALCOLM DANIEL
Executive producer RICHARD CAWSTON Producer HARRY HASTINGS
Directed by KEITH CHEETHAM
* Subtitles on Ceefax page 270

Contributors

Presented By:
Ronald Harwood
Unknown:
Edward Fox
Unknown:
Michael Elliott
Unknown:
Karolos Koun
Editor:
Malcolm Daniel
Producer:
Richard Cawston
Producer:
Harry Hastings
Directed By:
Keith Cheetham

The television review programme with Ludovic Kennedy who this week discusses Panorama (BBC1), The Tube (Channel 4) and Family Man (ITV) with Charles Moore , Political Editor of The Spectator Robert Elms, Editor of The Face and journalist Anne Robinson

Plus novelist, William Boyd, who looks at the way television has portrayed public schools.

Contributors

Presenter:
Ludovic Kennedy
Panellist:
Charles Moore
Panellist:
Robert Elms
Panellist:
Anne Robinson
Speaker:
William Boyd
Assistant Producer:
Mukti Jain
Director:
Kevin Loader
Producer:
John Archer

starring
Robert Mitchum , Takakura Ken
Former private detective Harry Kilmer is summoned urgently to Japan by a wealthy shipping magnate. He discovers that the man's daughter is being held hostage by the Yakuza - the Japanese 'Mafia'. Kilmer and a former member of the Yakuza decide to take on the organisation - a task which proves both dangerous and bloody.
Screenplay by PAUL SCHRADER and ROBERT TOWNE
Produced and directed by SYDNEY POLLACK Films: page 18

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Mitchum
Unknown:
Takakura Ken
Unknown:
Harry Kilmer
Unknown:
Paul Schrader
Directed By:
Sydney Pollack
Harry Kilmer:
Robert Mitchum
Tanaka Ken:
Takakura Ken
George Tanner:
Brian Keith
Wheat:
Herb Edelman
Dusty:
Richard Jordan
Eiko:
Kishi Keiko
Tono:
Okado Eiji
Goro:
James Shigeta
Kato:
Kyosuke MacHida
Hanako:
Christina Kokubo

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