6.30 Perspective
A weekly programme on the arts
The Medium for the Message
DAVID STOREY 'S new play The Changing Room opens at the Royal Court Theatre in London tonight. He had three successful novels to his name before he turned to the theatre. ALAN BRIEN talks tO DAVID STOREY about his work. and discusses with DAVID CAUTE , ANDREW SINCLAIR and DAVID MERCER why writers choose a particular medium - play, novel, film, television - and why they sometimes move from one to another.
Producer DAVID DICKINSON
7.0 Affluence and Inequality
Ten programmes on the problems of the developing world presented by PETER DONALDSON. author of Worlds Apart
6: The Seeds of Development
In Britain only 30 per cent of the labour force work In agriculture: in poor countries the figure is usually over 70 per cent. So deveiopment must begin in rural areas. But the problems are immense - the conservatism of the peasant farmer, his traditional techniques of cultivation, his lack of finance. Can the ' Green Revolution ' provide the answer - or will these new agricultural techniques create new problems?
PETER DONALDSON. Tutor in Economics at Ruskin College. Oxford, with MICHAEL LIPTON , PROFESSOR LEONARD JOY PROFESSOR
GUNNAR MYRDAL and LORD BALOGH
Producer DAVID DICKINSON