A look at the present plight and future shape of town and country.
4: The Future of the Chicken and the Egg
The fourth of five programmes on the conservation of energy. JEREMY bugler, environment correspondent of The Observer, in conversation with: MICHAEL ALLABY , writer and ecologist: GERALD LEACH , Visiting Fellow, Sussex University; SIR HENRY plumb, President, National Farmers Union; KEN MORGAN, agricultural engineer. University of Reading; RALPH COWARD. organic farmer.
Food in Britain is produced by using huge quantities of energy. Yet the energy crisis has come just as Britain needs to produce more of its own food - because of the world food shortage.
Producer LEONIE COHN