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North Sea oil is currently flowing ashore in massive quantities. But the first phase of the boom is almost over and companies are already vying with each other with plans to extract oil from the more inaccesaible fields. Can British construction companies benefit from this new phase? The programme looks at the first stage of North Sea oil development during the late 60s and early 70s and finds that despite the massive contracts involved, many of the orders for rigs and other extraction equipment went abroad. With Brian Widlake and Valerie Singleton

Programmes under review will be An Englishman Abroad" (BBC 1). "Q.E.D." The Future Is Further Away Than You Think" (BBC 1) and “The Great Palace” (BBC 2). Ludovic Kennedy invites comments from his panel of guests. There is also a feature on regional "opt outs" - programmes not shown on the network

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While most of the data in the BBC’s Programme Index is drawn from Radio Times and BBC programmes pages, a minority of listings have been compiled using the BBC’s own historical documents and early BBC listings printed in contemporary newspapers.