Live coverage of the second day in Southport.
Further coverage from Southport
12.30* Morning Report
A round-up of the debates
6.40-7.5 Closedown
Weather
News and analysis of the main topics on the second day
At last a subject we all know more about than the experts - or think we do. The subject is ourselves. Working class heroes; good inventors but poor businessmen - that's the verdict on the British given by two recent Italian and West German television reports. And the French have been out to see if their country's cliche views of us need updating. How accurate are the comments made about us by Continental television journalists?
Bowler-hatted, long-haired or cloth-capped: judge for yourself from these films. See if you agree with what those French, Germans and Italians are saying about us.
Introduced by Derek Hart
Chairman David Jacobs
Panel: Isobel Barnett, Kenneth Williams, William Franklyn, Anna Quayle and a guest celebrity
Dr Ned Franklin argues that: The benefits of nuclear power outweigh the dangers
The only answer to the energy crisis would seem to be fission power - splitting the atom. But some experts are alarmed by the dangers that go with nuclear power. They include accidents in reactors which could devastate huge areas; the diversion into sinister hands of plutonium - the stuff bombs are made of; waste-products from reactors which remain deadly for 24,000 years.
Dr Franklin, Chief Executive of British Nuclear Fuels Limited, believes the benefits outweigh the dangers. He argues his case in the Theatre of the Royal Institution, London, with:
Ronald Brown, MP
Daniel F. Ford, Union of Concerned Scientists, Boston, USA
Ian Smart, Dep. Director, Royal Institute of International Affairs
Chairman Prof Sir George Porter
by Jean Rhys
Dramatised by Alan Seymour
Six plays showing the work of women writers, three set in the 30s and three in the 70s.
In hospital in France, Inez finds life in the English ward as cold and alien as a machine. But she has reckoned without an unexpected act of kindness.
with Peter Dorling; Weather
