A series of eight documentary programmes written and presented by Michael Charlton which examine the missed opportunities of Britain's European diplomacy
6: A Last Step Sideways While the Six progressed rapidly to the signing of the Treatv of Rome in 1957, Britain made a last attempt to outflank the EEC with Plan G, the industrial free trade area, to bridge the gap between the Community and the rest of Western Europe. Both the US and the Six were opposed to this and the plan failed.
Contributors include GEORGE BALL , RUSSELL
BRETHERTON, LORD BUTLER, DOUGLAS DILLON , SIR FRANK FIGGURES , LORD GARNER, LORD GLADWYN, MAURICE
COUVE DE MURVILLE. RICHARD NEUSTADT , SIR CON O'NEILL , BARON SNOY, LORD
THORNEYCROFT, PIERRE URI and recordings from the BBC Sound and Television Archives. Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
(First broadcast on 16 March)