Sweet Solutions
Tonight's Horizon visits Brazil, original home of the sugar business, where surplus cane is already being put to surprising new uses on the streets of Sao Paulo. By 1980 Brazil will have 20 per cent of her cars running on alcohol - distilled from sugar. It's a project planned to cut down expensive oil imports and to create new jobs in the run-down North-East, whose appalling poverty is the legacy of sugar slavery. Furthermore, sugar-cane is a highly efficient solar energy trap. It could well become the feedstock for European chemical industries when oil runs out. Narrator RAY MOORE
Film editor JOHN STOTHART
Editor SIMON CAMPBELL-JONES Written and produced by VIVIENNE KING