We tend to think of ourselves as a modern technological country, yet 80 per cent of us read our horoscopes and one in five think they are accurate. No one knows how many palmists, clairvoyants, card readers, foot analysts and other sundry fortunetellers practise in this country - there is enough business around it seems to give quite a few of them a decent living.
David Dimbleby has been out and about among today's fortunetellers talking to those who practise and to the people who go to them. He has had his horoscope cast, his palm analysed, and his feet read. Tonight he will be reporting on what he found.
(Radio Times People: page 4)