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Programme introduced by Gill Pyrah. The first item looks at the pressures faced by Britain’s National Parks. Anne Leuchars introduces the item in the studio and uses maps to talk about the role of the Peak Planning Board in the Peak District National Park. On film we see scenes from an event, earlier this year, which marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Peak District mass trespass that led to the formation of the national parks. Leuchars goes rambling with Nottingham man Eric Horriben who has been walking in the area for fifty years. He talks about the appeal of the countryside, how access has changed since the 1930s and the on-going problem of disputes with land owners. We see views of the Derbyshire Peak District including climbers at Stanage Edge, walkers in the area and the car-park at Curbar Gap. Anne then meets sheep farmer Ron Thorp and the estate’s head shepherd Ken Adlington who talk about the problems caused by dogs. We see various signs and views of sheep followed by shots of land eroded by walkers and horse riders. Finally Anne talks to ranger Mike Hammond in the Burbage Valley about the balance between access to the land and preservation.
Back in the studio Gill Pyrah talks to Timothy Clowes of the Country Landowners Association and John Cowley who is the leader of an open access pressure group about the issues raised in the film. The second item is a look at the fall of the Labour MP John Stonehouse who was elected as MP for Wednesbury in 1957. He had a successful career within the Labour party until business pressures forced him to fake his own death in Florida in 1974 and attempt to start a new life with a fake passport and mistress Sheila Buckley. We see archive film from Midlands News of Stonehouse in Wednesbury in 1957; stills during his political career and newspaper headlines about his disappearance. This is followed by ITN footage of his return to the UK in 1975 and arrival at court for his subsequent fraud trial. He served three years of a seven year sentence. Now married to Buckley he is relaunching his life as an author. Gill Pyrah talks to him in the studio about his fall from grace and disappearance. In his words he 'had a freak out'.
Presented by Gill Pyrah
Reporter: Anne Leuchars
Film Camera: John Ward
Film Sound: Jim Cowan
Film Editor: Ric O'Connor
Design: Giovanni Guarino
Graphics: Jim Chalmers
Music: John Patrick
Production Assistant: Patsy Wood
Director: Odran Walsh
Executive Producer: David Gerrard
Editor: George Mitchell
Production number 1567/82.