As we move into the 80s, Horizon takes a final look over its shoulder at the last ten years.
Our guide is Gordon Rattray Taylor, the original editor of Horizon. It's been a decade of contrasts; Concorde and man-powered flight, test-tube babies and abortion, nuclear reactors and solar roofs, micro-processors and meditation. The 70s opened with men walking on the moon. It ends with an energy crisis, inflation and unemployment.
Gordon Rattray Taylor's assessment of the 70s pulls no punches; he says we've had some painful shocks, but he detects signs that we are already learning from them as we enter the 80s.