Presenters this week Carol Chell, Johnny Ball

Five programmes about the European Economic Community today

It is the aim of the EEC's industrial policy to encourage international co-operation and to integrate the financing of new technology. Can this policy succeed, and if so, can it succeed in time?
Introduced by Murray Forsyth

with Peter Woods
Weather

With the annual cattle drive over Murdoch gives all hands the weekend off in town. Johnny, fed a 'mickey' and robbed in the local cantina, comes to in the mission house and finds himself falling for the dedicated young woman who runs it.

A duel of words and wit between Frank Muir, Marjorie Proops, Robin Ray and Geoffrey Wheeler, Joanna Jones, Fyfe Robertson
Referee Robert Robinson
(from Manchester)

Introduced by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, KG

It is European Conservation Year, and much attention has been drawn to the general problems of pollution, over-population, and nature conservation.

But what is the situation in Britain? What, for example, is the present condition of our own River Thames? Just how clean is the air in cities now? Will factory farms and prairie fields become the only country landscape of the future? With our modern way of life using up more and more food, water, power, and space, each one of us every day makes increasing demands on the countryside of Britain. We are changing it whether we like it or not. But we can choose how we change it.

To bring together the many users of the countryside. The Duke of Edinburgh set up in 1963 'The Countryside in 1970' series of conferences. These culminate today, because this is the first day of the final conference, an occasion to review progress so far and plan for the future.
A special film report followed by a discussion about issues raised in the film.

Appearing in the film:
John Cherrington, farmer
Bernard Venables, fisherman
Peter Scott, conservationist
Tony Soper, naturalist
Desmond Morris, writer
Written by John Lloyd

Appearing in the discussion:
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
Peter Scott
D.A.C. Dewdney, Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation Ltd
G.P. Wibberley, Professor of Countryside Planning, London
(from Bristol)
(Prince Philip in the chair: page 5)

with Majella Brady, Kiki Dee, Wayne Fontana, Lois Lane, Chris Marlowe, Tom Saffery, Marshall Scott, Danny Street, The Fine Tooth Combs

Introduced by Clive Graham

The champion jockey has variously been described as 'Britain's worst-fed company director,' 'a man with short arms and deep pockets,' and as having an expression 'like a well-kept grave.' He is also by common consent, the best race rider on the Turf. In the 22 years since his first success at the age of 12 Lester has ridden nearly 3,000 winners here and abroad. He is almost certainly Britain's wealthiest sportsman. But this taciturn, poker-faced man remains a stranger to all but a few close friends. What are the ingredients of his greatness? What kind of person is he? This programme shows his successes on such horses as Nijinsky, Sir Ivor, and Crepello; probes his past reputation of being a hard and dangerous rider; and gives his own views and those of Sir Gordon Richards, Scobie Breasley, Harry Carr, Sam Armstrong, Vincent O'Brien, Bernard Van Cutsem, and Keith Piggott, his father.