In this edition of the programme:
- Two years after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Research File attends
A conference in Washington reviewing the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident and how the world would deal with a similar disaster today; - A conference on combating blindness in the Third World, including cataracts and river blindness;
- NASA’s 10-year Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Producers: Anne Blair Gould & Jonathan Marks
Broadcast: May 9, 1988