What Price Steak?
Do you feel you really understand the reasons behind the rising price of food?
Each increase of course has its own specific reasons, but to help unravel the kind of factors involved tonight's Horizon investigates just one item - beef.
For about a year now its price has been fairly stable and there has recently been talk of a glut of beef and falling prices. Yet it is likely that within two years there will be a shortage severe enough to push beef beyond the purse of many housewives.
The programme pieces together the jigsaw of events behind what is now a crisis in agriculture - events which began with the Polish bread riots in 1970 and may point to the end of a cheap food policy for Britain. Narrator PAUL VAUCHAN
Editor PETER GOODCHII. D
Producer MICHAEL ANDREWS