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Horizon Season 17 Episodes
Season 17 Episode Guide
30 Episodes 1980 - 1981
Episode 1
Goodbye Gutenberg
Episode 2
Invasion of the Virions
Episode 3
Beyond the Milky Way
Episode 4
Little Boxes
Episode 5
The Other Kenya
Episode 6
Moving Still
Episode 7
The Way Out
Episode 8
Dead Sea Lives
Episode 9
Once in a Million Years
Episode 10
Smokers' Luck
Episode 11
Behind the Horoscope
Episode 12
The Mondragon Experiment
Episode 13
The Spike
Episode 14
The Slatemakers
A nostalgic look at the decline of the 200-year-old slate roofing tile industry in North Wales, which once supported thousands of workers and their families and at time of this documentary had dwindled to just a few working quarries..
Episode 15
Anatomy of a Volcano
Episode 16
Spend and Prosper
Episode 17
A Whole New Medicine
Episode 18
The Qualyub Project
Episode 19
No-One Will Take Me Seriously
Episode 20
Living with Dying
Episode 21
A Is for Atom, B Is for Bomb
Episode 22
Who Will Deliver Your Baby?
Episode 23
West of Bangalore
Episode 24
Gentlemen, Lift Your Skirts...
60 mins
The 'Formula One' racing car is not really a car at all, it's an aerodynamic projectile on wheels. The most obvious feature of these 'WING' cars is a device called a 'skirt', that seals aerodynamic suction beneath the car, sticking it to the road. British designers have developed the skirt to a point where their cars are faster than the more powerful factory cars. The tiny 'Williams (Grand Prix Engineering)' team from Didcot won every championship last year with their skirted car. Now the Paris-based ruling body ('Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile' - aka 'FIA') of motorsport has banned the skirt and thrown this new technology into disarray. 'BBC: Horizon' spent the winter with 'Williams' and their 1980 'Formula One World Champion' driver Alan Jones. What is the essence of a modern racing car? How can they improve the performance for 1981 - with skirts lifted?
Episode 25
Hello Universe
Episode 26
Voices from Silent Hands
Episode 27
Did Darwin Get It Wrong?
Episode 28
East of Bombay
Episode 29
Resolution on Saturn: The Rings
Episode 30
Resolution on Saturn: The Moons