Eight programmes written and presented by Michael Charlton , which examine what have been called the ' missed. : opportunities ' of Britain s European diplomacy. _
7: The Channel Crossing In the summer of 1960 - less than a year after Mr Harold Macmillan had won the General Election of 1959 - there- began a fundamental re-appraisal. Britain gave up the strategy ;of close association with and Icose cooperation among : the European neighbours and applied to join the Six. The story of why and how this re-appraisal became policy is fold by three of the Cabinet
Ministers concerned, Lord Butler, The Rt Hon
Edward Heath , mp, and Lord Soames, with additional contributions from GEORGE BALL , THE REV SIR HERBERT ANDREW and SIR PHILIP DE ZULUETA and recordings from the BBC Sound Archives. Producer
ANTHONY MONCRIEFP
(The Great Refusal- the story of th,6 first de Gaulle veto: next Mon(3ay'8.30 pm) followed by an interlude.