This guest discusses the importance of television as a medium for educating and sharing information, especially that which is happening in the political world. He also talks of the social nature of television in the sense that it gives experiences that we can all share and which offer subjects for conversation. Aberfan and the effect on the community is discussed and the Miners' Strike and the behaviour of the police during that time. He also refers to the Investiture and the pomp and ceremony of the occasion.