"If the government did not subsidise the arts, most of them would vanish and we would be reduced to a state of barbarism." But is this a good enough reason to expect government subsidy? If so, who gets the money, and who benefits as a result?
Presented by Alan Peacock
with The Rt Hon Jennie Lee, MP, Minister for the Arts; Malcolm Arnold; Hardie Ratcliffe, General Secretary, Musicians' Union