Crude Britannia: The Story of North Sea Oil — Season 1

This edition gives a voice to the men who made the discovery in the 1960s and who risked their lives to get the oil ashore.

The boom of the early 1980s turned to bust with the collapse of the global price of oil, as the industry was rocked by tragedies.

The Gulf War brought home the fragility of global energy supplies, and the environmental movement's opposition grew stronger.