A series of interviews with men at the top of British Industry - the men on whom our prosperity depends.
Christopher Brasher talks to Lord Robens.

When he was an errand boy in a Manchester umbrella shop Alf Robens knew that he was 'going to get on.' And so he did: a director of the Co-op at twenty-two; a Member of Parliament at thirty-five; Minister of Labour at forty. But then came the long years in Opposition which were ended for him, surprisingly, when Harold Macmillan asked him to become Chairman of the National Coal Board. If Lord Robens had not taken that job he would now probably, on his own assessment, be Prime Minister.
How does he see the state of the country at the moment? Having wrought economic miracles in the country's largest single industry, how would he cure our present economic troubles?