Introduction

In the late 1940s, Labour government nationalised energy system and coal mines. Nationalisation or public ownership was meant to boost efficiency and productivity. But it wasn't quite that simple: Natural gas was cheap when it left the North Sea but not when it reached people's boilers and cookers. In the 1970s, as a growing frustration with state-run industries, some thought they could get rid of what they saw as unnecessary costs. This podcast finds the world's best audio documentaries and puts them in one place.