' National Park ' is an impressive designation. But is the protection it gives to the country-side as effective as it sounds? The first of three programmes presented by Malcolm MacEwen 1: Farmers or National Park Keepers?
Modern farming is depopulating the dales and gradually changing the landscape. Can the aims of food production, supporting the rural community and protecting traditional landscape, be reconciled?
MALCOLM MACEWEN in conversation with farmers, and with members and officers of the National Park committees in North York Moors and the Yorkshire Dales National Parks. Producer LEONIE COHN