Today's story: "The Vain Crocodile" by Margaret MacRae
Illustrated by Mina Martinez

with Richard Whitmore
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The United Nations Conference on the Environment, which opens this week in Stockholm, is the first attempt at international agreement on some of the most urgent problems of our time.

But can the interests of the various nations involved ever be reconciled with the interests of the world at large? Is it possible that we have to re-examine that most fundamental of all present day institutions - The State itself?

In this, the last programme of the series, John Percival asks whether the kind of political and constitutional structure which the developing countries have inherited from the west, is really helpful in solving these problems.

The programme will be followed by a discussion of the issues raised in the series by a group of men distinguished in this field including:
Professor Wilfred Beckerman, Professor of Economics at University College, London
The Rt Rev Hugh Montefiore, Bishop of Kingston
Dr E.F. Schumacher, founder of the International Technology Group
and two representatives from the developing countries included in the programme, Ghana and Sri Lanka (Ceylon).
The discussion will be chaired by Ludovic Kennedy

by John Prebble
[Starring] Rosalie Crutchley as Catherine
Starring Keith Michell as Henry VIII
with John Ronane

[Repeat]
(Elizabeth R starts on Thursday, BBC1)

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