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Living in the Eighties: 1: The Office Arrives by Your Armchair

on BBC Radio 4 FM

What will everyday life be like in, say, ten years' time? Sir Alan Cottrell, lately Chief Scientific Advisor to the Government, has been talking to George Luce.
'If you turn to the Sunday newspapers or even to the BBC, you'll find the arts, politics and all that side of the nation's activities discussed at great length. You'll not find much sympathetic discussion of industrial activities... These things will determine the economic life of the country in the next 20 or 30 years. The next four programmes look at some of these topics-

Tie a knot between your telephone and your television receiver and a whole world of information opens up - and it may mean you can run an office from a row of push buttons in the back bedroom.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Cottrell
Unknown:
George Luce.
Producer:
Marlene Pease

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