A Happy New Year?
Energy shortages, industrial and political strife, fears of recession and rising unemployment -rarely has a new year opened with such gloom as 1974. Daily the experts hold the stage advising, explaining and forecasting, so tonight, for a change, Panorama reports on those of us, the majority, who are not consulted perhaps quite so much.
For the past few weeks Philip Tibenham joined the people of Hereford to see how the daily dose of news affected their lives; how one community rang out the crisis-ridden old and brought in the new.
Producer PETER IBBOTSON Editor FRANK SMITH