Six programmes on the present plight and future shape of town and country.
4: Is Modern Farming Out of Control?
The second of two programmes on the impact of modern farming on the English countryside. If existing landscapes are thought worth conserving or new ones worth creating. whose responsibility is it? With farming and forestry largely outside planning control, can landscape and conservation be planned?
Malcolm MacEwen. author of a forthcoming book on the English landscape, in conversation with farmers and with DEREK BARBER , former Head of Gloucestershire Farming Advisory Service: NORMAN BUCHAN , mp. former Minister for Agriculture; JOHN DUNNING. Chairman of the Lake District Upland Management Experiment: REG HOOKWAY, Director of the Countryside Commission: DEREK LOVEJOY , landscape architect: MRSHANNELORE SCHMIDT. Farming Correspondent of Bavarian Radio: and GERALD WIBBERLEY. Professor of Countryside Planning in the University of London. *
ProducerLEONIE COHN
The Energy Trap