Over a Barrel
From the land of the camel and the Cadillac, the tough Bedouin and even tougher businessman, Panorama reports on a country that not only has the greatest oil reserves but also the greatest money reserves in the world - Saudi Arabia.
History will record that as the world was trying to recover from the impact of the Arab-Israeli war last October, one man quietly and deliberately revolutionised the economies of that world when he played the by now legendary ' oil card.' That man was King Faisal
RICHARD KERSHAW drove a thousand miles through the desert to this remote, half modern, half medieval country to discover whether they have any more cards up their sleeve.
Producer WILLIAM CRAN Editor FRANK SMITH
(Postponed from 11 February)