France: Au Revoir Socialism? Next Sunday's election in France is almost certain to produce a shot-gun wedding: a Thatcher-like government under a Socialist president. Five years ago President
Mitterand's victory seemed a socialist dream come true.
What went wrong? Why are the French now ready to try what looks like a recipe for political confrontation? Fred Emery talks to the outgoing and prospective Prime Ministers and to a number of French families to catch the mood of this extraordinary about-turn in French politics.
Producer KATHY O'NEIL Editor DAVID DICKINSON