Eric Robson invites people to talk about issues directly concerning them.
Keep Off the Grass?
Britain's ten National Parks were set up nearly 30 years ago to save the best and most beautiful areas of our countryside for future generations. But the industrial pressures of an overcrowded island cannot ignore the mineral wealth of these protected landscapes.
Recently the Government gave the go-ahead to a major quarrying development in the Peak District - against the advice of the Peak Park Planning Board. Now an American mining company wants to mine fluorspar near picturesque Lathkill Dale.
So what is the future for our National Parks? Brass Tacks talks to industrialists, to local people who know that quarries mean not only noise and dirt, but jobs as well, and to conservationists who believe the very survival of our National Parks is at stake.
Producer BRIAN james Editor ROGER LAUGHTON
Many BBC Local Radio Stations in England are giving their audiences a chance to state their views on this issue - in phone-ins following Brass Tacks.