Sir Peter Parker , Chairman of the British Railways Board, gives the 11th in this series of annual lectures before an invited audience at the Royal Society of Arts in London.
Missing Our Connections
Tonight SIR PETER PARKER examines the relationship between
Government, Industry and Democracy and finds that we are ' missing our connections'.
He analyses Britain's industrial decline and describes the damage the politics of our democracy can cause to the sensible development of industrial policy.
He sees dangers to democracy in industrial decline, the prospect of a divided people and the creation of two nations.
He remains an optimist and produces his own ideas of how Britain could once again achieve industrial health.
Introduced by George Howard , Chairman of the BBC
Director pieter morpurco Producer JEREMY BENNErr
(Sir Peter Parker 's lecture will be published in THE LISTENER of 7 April)