The sixth of nine films The Sharp End
In Britain the folk heroes of the oil business have always been at the production end-explorers, scientists, drillers, engineers: the salesmen, the men who must meet the customer eyeball-to-eyeball, their praises went unsung. Oil is something no one wants to buy. The battle takes different forms in America, Britain and Europe; but in all of them the salesman's day has come.
(Treasure Island: tomorrow at 6.25)