Subjects include (side 1): defence spending (from about 8 minutes into the recording and secondly 30 minutes into the recording), including an interview with Tom King, Secretary of State for Defence and Gerald Kaufman, Shadow Foreign Secretary; costs of the European Social Chapter to business (in an interview with Sir John Banham, Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry, CBI).

Side 2: the Labour election party political broadcast on a child waiting for an ear operation ["the War of Jennifer's Ear"], the health debate and electioneering in general, including an interview with Harvey Thomas, Director of Presentation, Conservative Party and John Underwood, former Director of Campaigns and Communications, Labour Party [there are two separate sections on this story on side 2]; National Health Service reforms, including interviews with British Medical Association representatives; defence spending, including an interview with [Walter] Menzies Campbell, Liberal Democrat spokesman on defence.