Eric Robson invites people to talk about issues directly concerning them.
Price of the Canals
For 12 years, men like Sir Frank Price , Chairman of the British Waterways Board, have been trying to persuade a disbelieving government that Britain's canals could have a profitable, commercial future. The official view is that, so far as freight is concerned, canals are finished.
Brass Tacks went with SIR FRANK PRICE to Rotterdam to see the advances Europe is making with its inland waterways system. Back in Britain, they visited old and new canal installations.
In tonight's programme, at a live outside broadcast from the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, supporters of waterway freight transport put their case. A group of people, who oppose spending more money on the commercial canal system, are in the Manchester studio.
Assistant producer ERIC ROBSON Producer KEN STEPHINSON Editor ROGER LAUGHTON
Many BBC Local Radio Stations in England are giving their audience a chance to state their views on this issue - in phone-ins following Brass Tacks.