A report by Peter Williams Bang in the Middle ...
Three thousand people are evacuated in Barking as a leak of cyanide gas is suspected ... Three schools and 200 homes in Slough are cleared as a factory blazes.... Two men die in a factory explosion at Preston ... All incidents in the last six months, involving industries flourishing in the centre of communities.
There exists in Britain a Major Hazards List of hundreds of installations that represent, in the event of an accident, a serious danger to the people living nearby. Thousands of smaller companies Potentially hold a lesser threat. The details of these companies are restricted for security reasons.
PETER WILLIAMS examines how much we know about what is going on inside the factories at the bottom of the garden - and how Much we have the right to know.
Research PAUL ANDERSEN
Film editor GRAHAM SHIPHAM Producer BILARY BENSON