World in Action

1. Beat the Clock on Defence Spending

Air Date: 1963-01-01

Military budget over spending is presented as a game show.

2. Atomic Arms Race

Air Date: 1963-01-07

3. Congo Conflict

Air Date: 1963-01-14

4. East Germany

Air Date: 1963-01-21

6. Lord Hailsham

Air Date: 1963-02-11

7. Supermarkets

Air Date: 1963-02-18

An investigation into supermarket practices and their effect on a neighbourhood.

8. The Fashion Houses

Air Date: 1963-02-25

9. Tibet

Air Date: 1963-03-11

A look at the first years of China's occupation of Tibet.

10. Harold Wilson

Air Date: 1963-03-25

11. The Gambling Business

Air Date: 1963-03-25

12. Typhoid in Zermatt

Air Date: 1963-04-01

13. Migrants

Air Date: 1963-04-08

The plight of southern based Italians having to move to the North of Italy for work.

14. The Airlines

Air Date: 1963-04-08

15. The Volunteers

Air Date: 1963-04-14

The valuable contributions young volunteers make.

16. The Der Speigel Affair

Air Date: 1963-04-24

17. The Petrol Business

Air Date: 1963-04-29

An investigation into the UK petrol supply business and techniques used amongst rival firms to win customers.

18. The Greek Royal Family

Air Date: 1963-05-06

19. Charities

Air Date: 1963-05-13

20. Stanley Matthews

Air Date: 1963-05-27

21. Litter

Air Date: 1963-06-03

A look at the country's increasing litter problem.

22. Don't Take the Risk

Air Date: 1963-06-10

23. Election Costs

Air Date: 1963-06-24

24. Ivanov

Air Date: 1963-07-01

1. The Guns

Air Date: 1963-09-11

2. Lord Denning

Air Date: 1963-09-16

3. Dick Gregory

Air Date: 1963-09-29

4. M.R.A

Air Date: 1963-09-30

5. Oxfam

Air Date: 1963-10-10

6. Blackpool Conference

Air Date: 1963-10-14

7. Living in the Slums

Air Date: 1963-10-22

A look at conditions in Stepney, London.

8. Repairs

Air Date: 1963-10-29

9. Power

Air Date: 1963-11-05

10. The Prime Minister - Sir Alec Douglas Home

Air Date: 1963-11-12

11. The Shadows

Air Date: 1963-11-19

12. Increasing Traffic

Air Date: 1963-11-26

13. The British Way of Death

Air Date: 1963-12-03

14. Dallas

Air Date: 1963-12-03

A visit to the city of Dallas in the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, focusing on the varying reactions and conditions of the people there.

15. President Lyndon Johnson

Air Date: 1963-12-10

16. The Cost of Dying

Air Date: 1963-12-17

Investigates that behind the solemn facade, a funeral service can be an opportunity to take advantage of the situation for monetary gain.

17. Cooke on America

Air Date: 1963-12-31

18. Truth About Spain

Air Date: 1964-01-07

An observation of Spanish Life under Franco.

19. Alistair Cooke Reports

Air Date: 1964-01-21

20. Lakonia - The Facts

Air Date: 1964-01-14

21. The Thin Red Line

Air Date: 1964-01-21

A profile of British Soldiers at various world trouble spots.

22. Smuggling

Air Date: 1964-02-04

23. The Power of the Nanny

Air Date: 1964-02-11

24. Cyprus

Air Date: 1964-02-18

The war in Cyprus between the Turkish and Greek Cypriots.

25. Concorde

Air Date: 1964-02-25

Profile of the world's first supersonic airliner.

26. The Great Train Robbery

Air Date: 1964-03-26

Reconstruction of the recent night mail train robbery

27. The Williams Family

Air Date: 1964-03-28

Plight of a South African family refused entry into Britain.

29. Radio Pirates

Air Date: 1964-05-12

Unique access to the new form of radio which is competing on a not strictly legal level with the BBC - the pirate stations. Those on the outside both for and against also have their say.

30. How to Make a Million in One Minute Flat

Air Date: 1964-05-19

A profile of the town of Timmins in Canada which became a boom town overnight over the recent discovery of large amounts of Copper.

31. The Face on the Cover

Air Date: 1964-05-26

32. Lord Beaverbrook

Air Date: 1964-06-09

33. Typhoid in Aberdeen

Air Date: 1964-06-16

A typhoid epidemic in Aberdeen is traced to a rogue batch of Argentinian corned beef.

34. Goldwater for President? or How to Win Friends and Influence People

Air Date: 1964-06-30

A look at Barry Goldwater's run for President.

35. John Bloom

Air Date: 1964-07-21

The rise and fall of washing machine magnate John Bloom and his Roll's Razor Company.

36. U.S. in U.K.

Air Date: 1964-07-28

1. The Story of the Sun

Air Date: 1964-09-15

The launch of The Sun newspaper.

2. The Flip Side

Air Date: 1964-09-22

Various recording agents speak out on the pop music business, and whether the UK singles chart is a fair representation of vinyl sales.

3. U.S. Elections

Air Date: 1964-09-29

4. Canada

Air Date: 1964-10-06

French-Canadian unrest at the Queen's visit.

5. Eyes

Air Date: 1964-10-20

Investigation on how a bacterial infection got into a Birmingham Eye Hospital and caused several cases of blindness.

6. How to Loose at the Olympics After Really Trying

Air Date: 1964-10-27

An investigation into the poor training facilities available to Olympic contenders.

7. Vietnam

Air Date: 1964-11-03

8. Air Safety

Air Date: 1964-11-10

9. Smethwick and Racial Tension

Air Date: 1964-11-17

10. State of the Unions: Unions and the Motor Car

Air Date: 1964-12-01

A comparison of the industrial relations in the car making industries of the UK & the US.

11. Sunday Laws

Air Date: 1964-12-08

An investigation into Britain's age old Sunday trading laws and their effect on shops and similar businesses.

12. Labour Party Conference 1964

Air Date: 1964-12-15

13. Ballroom Dancing

Air Date: 1964-12-22

14. Highlights of 1964

Air Date: 1964-12-29

15. The English Disease

Air Date: 1965-02-09

Investigates if there is a link between bronchitis and road pollution.

17. Malcolm X

Air Date: 1965-02-23

Various black Americans give their views on Malcolm X, and an actor recreates some of his speeches.

18. The Night Drivers

Air Date: 1965-03-02

Investigates the transport and haulage industry and the dark practices that can leave drivers tired, open to hijack and dangerous vehicles on our roads.

21. The BBC

Air Date: 1965-03-20

24. The Middle East

Air Date: 1965-04-20

Observations of the tensions growing between Arab and Israeli.

25. Seventy Up

Air Date: 1965-04-27

Companion piece to Seven Up! (1964), this time featuring the elderly looking back rather than the young looking forward. The average age of these women and men is 79.

26. Water

Air Date: 1965-06-01

A look at the water crisis and how the drought will affect the summer.

30. The Other World

Air Date: 1965-06-29

31. Dukes

Air Date: 1965-07-06

32. The £.S.D. of MPH

Air Date: 1965-07-13

33. Jerry Builders

Air Date: 1965-07-20

34. The Tory Leadership

Air Date: 1965-07-22

35. Drugs

Air Date: 1965-08-03

1. A Girl Called Sharon

Air Date: 1967-07-03

A look at the Royal Marsden's Hospital work in the treatment of Leukaemia and how Sharon's parents Bill and Annette Norris battle against the limited knowledge and treatments available for those who suffer from this condition.

2. Some Grains of Truth

Air Date: 1967-07-10

Investigates how some drugs are smuggled into Britain.

3. A Duel in the Sun

Air Date: 1967-07-17

4. Defender of the Faith

Air Date: 1967-07-24

5. Mick Jagger

Air Date: 1967-07-31

Mick Jagger gives a press conference after his recent conditional discharge for drug use. He then joins a discussion with eminent people on what is expected of famous icons by society, and how much of this is their responsibility.

6. The Third World

Air Date: 1967-08-07

A profile of Stokely Carmichael, a black campaigner against the West's dominance of the world, during his visit to Britain.

7. Scientology for Sale

Air Date: 1967-08-14

8. Colonels' Democracy

Air Date: 1967-08-21

9. The Professional Dreamers

Air Date: 1967-08-28

10. Hell No! We Won't Go

Air Date: 1967-09-04

11. The Militants

Air Date: 1967-09-11

An investigation into the development of the Barbican Complex in London. Strikes and industrial action have stopped work on the building site for nearly a year.

12. The Born Losers

Air Date: 1967-09-18

The plight of families in Britain living below the poverty line.

13. The O'Rahilly File

Air Date: 1967-09-25

After the government successfully suppressed pirate radio stations, a follow-up to a previous episode in 1964 with Radio Caroline's crew and its director Ronan O'Rahilly

14. Smith's Back Door

Air Date: 1967-10-02

Sanction busting in Rhodesia.

15. The Breathalyser

Air Date: 1967-10-09

A report on the drink and driving laws of Sweden and Germany.

16. Island Under Arms

Air Date: 1967-10-16

17. We Know What We Saw!

Air Date: 1967-10-20

Unidentified Flying Object, or UFO sightings in the United States of America are analyzed by experts in various fields.

18. King of Kings

Air Date: 1967-10-23

The Coronation of the Shah of Persia and an interview with Queen Farah.

19. Wanted: Kind English Lady

Air Date: 1967-11-06

A report on the white foster mothering of black children in the UK.

20. You Can't Find Uncle Tom

Air Date: 1967-11-13

21. East of Aden

Air Date: 1967-11-20

22. Mothers in Action

Air Date: 1967-12-04

A group trying change society's attitude to unmarried mothers.

23. The End of a Revolution

Air Date: 1967-12-11

Bolivia after the death of Che Guevara, and at the trial of Regis Dubray.

24. India on the Edge

Air Date: 1967-12-18

A report on violence and chaos in Calcutta as India struggles to get a grip on democracy.

25. An Outlaw's Life

Air Date: 1968-01-01

An observation of Irish Travellers living in Britain.

26. The Long Bridge

Air Date: 1968-01-08

Report about The Allenby Bridge crossing between Israel and Jordan, used by refugees in the previous May

27. Alas Poor Hippies, Love is Dead

Air Date: 1968-01-15

The evolution of American hippies, their scene, drugs, pan-handling and other pastimes.

28. Merchants of War

Air Date: 1968-01-22

Investigates arms dealing and mercenaries on the way to the Nigerian state of Biafra.

29. Episode 29

Air Date: 1968-01-29

30. The Twelve Year Engagement

Air Date: 1968-02-05

Investigates the recruitment of boy soldiers and why some face difficulty trying to leave later.

31. Death by Instalments

Air Date: 1968-02-12

Examining a proposed parliamentary bill that will enable drug addicts to use free walk in centres to get heroin and cocaine.

32. Caught for a Baby

Air Date: 1968-02-19

33. Cold War, Warm Water

Air Date: 1968-02-26

34. No Entry

Air Date: 1968-03-04

The plight of Asians trying to escape from Kenya and the difficulties some are having, despite having British Passports, in entering the UK under looming new immigration rules.

35. Richard Nixon's Last Hurrah

Air Date: 1968-03-11

36. The Demonstration

Air Date: 1968-03-18

Follows the Anti-Vietnam demonstration in Grosvenor Square London on 16 March.

37. Episode 37

Air Date: 1968-03-25

38. A Group of Terrorists Attacked...

Air Date: 1968-04-01

The guerrilla fight for independence in Portuguese Guinea.

39. Listen, Whitey

Air Date: 1968-04-08

The mood in some black communities in America after the death of Martin Luther King.

40. Horoscope

Air Date: 1968-04-09

With interest in astrology increasing, predictions from astrologer Ingrid Lind are put to the test.

41. Wake Up and Work Together

Air Date: 1968-04-15

42. The Flame in Spain

Air Date: 1968-04-29

43. Below the Belt

Air Date: 1968-04-22

An observation of the prospects of children born with Spina Bifida, which results in below the waist paralysis.

44. The Star Spangled War

Air Date: 1968-05-06

GI's waiting to invade the Ashau Valley share their thoughts on the Vietnam War.

45. Stage for a Revolution

Air Date: 1968-05-13

The Berlin demonstration of May 1st and the events that led up to it.

46. Ward F.13

Air Date: 1968-05-20

An investigation into the appalling conditions of the female geriatric ward of Powick Mental Hospital near Worcester.

47. Stop That Bowing, Scrapin' and Scratchin'

Air Date: 1968-05-27

Following the poor peoples' protest and demonstration for better conditions, in Washington DC.

48. Robert Kennedy

Air Date: 1968-06-10

49. The Guinea Pigs

Air Date: 1968-06-17

Grammar School boys are sent to Marlborough College.

50. Election of Fear

Air Date: 1968-06-24

The fall out from the student revolt in Paris France and how it will effect the Grenoble Election.

51. Jeremy Thorpe

Air Date: 1968-07-01

1. Give Us the Works

Air Date: 1968-09-10

An idea to give workers more say in the running of their company is put to the board of British Steel.

2. Spies for Hire

Air Date: 1968-09-16

3. February's Children

Air Date: 1968-09-23

An investigation into 7 children (expelled from Kenya) who have to live on their own in the UK as their parents cannot join them due to new laws.

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 1968-09-30

5. New Drugs, Same Needle

Air Date: 1968-10-07

The banning of Methedrine and its implications for the drug taking community.

6. A Score to Settle

Air Date: 1968-10-14

Manchester United's allegations of foul play by Argentinian side Estudiantes.

7. Backs to the Wall

Air Date: 1968-10-21

A look behind the reasons for the Londonderry Civil Rights demonstrations in the previous weeks.

8. Special: Vietnam

Air Date: 1968-10-27

9. A City Stumbles

Air Date: 1968-11-04

A look at the crisis facing New York City with the decay of the administrative structure.

10. Nasser's Fortified Ditch

Air Date: 1968-11-11

11. An Outbreak of Peace?

Air Date: 1968-11-18

With peace in sight Vietnamese and Americans predict the future for Vietnam.

12. A Buyer's Market

Air Date: 1968-11-25

The recent Act of Parliament has increased dramatically the number of abortions but also a two tier system for rich and poor.

13. The Trail of the Vanishing Voters

Air Date: 1968-12-09

World in Action tries to trace the overseas voters in Britain who have supposedly voted for The People's National Congress Party in Guyana's election.

14. The Twenty Four Carat Kingdom

Air Date: 1968-12-16

A profile of Laos, considered the most unproductive country in the world but rich and financially stable through its passing of opium products and dodgy gold.

15. First Class Delivery

Air Date: 1968-12-23

The medical practice of epidural injections to relieve the pain of childbirth and the religious groups who oppose them.

16. Sorry, Nothing Doing

Air Date: 1968-12-30

Update on the subjects of three notable previous films in the series, the gypsies of An Outlaw's Life (1968), the large family of The Born Losers (1967), and the elderly ladies of Ward F.13 (1968).

17. The Making of a Prime Minister

Air Date: 1969-01-06

18. Next Year in Peking

Air Date: 1969-01-13

19. All Change at Newry!

Air Date: 1969-01-20

20. A New School of Thought

Air Date: 1969-01-27

21. Death of a Student

Air Date: 1969-02-03

The events in Prague following the suicide and funeral of Jan Palach.

22. Like Other Men

Air Date: 1969-02-10

Looking at the priests rebelling in the Dutch Catholic Church over celibacy vows.

23. Living in the Red

Air Date: 1969-02-17

24. A War on Ice

Air Date: 1969-02-24

25. Home for a Revolution

Air Date: 1969-03-03

26. Where People Don't Matter

Air Date: 1969-03-10

The fallout from the earthquake in Sicily and the implications that corruption is preventing the decent rehousing of victims.

27. A Case to Answer

Air Date: 1969-03-17

Locals complain of police corruption and extortion in Hong Kong.

28. The Men Left Behind

Air Date: 1969-03-24

29. The Six Day War - Day 666

Air Date: 1969-03-31

30. The Owners and the Owned

Air Date: 1969-04-14

Investigates slum properties in Notting Hill turning over vast profits for a company based in the Bahamas.

31. Inside Out

Air Date: 1969-04-21

A revolutionary new look at how mental patients should be treated, allowing them out into the wider world, and distancing as much as possible from Victorian lunatic asylums.

32. A modest proposal

Air Date: 1969-05-05

33. Two Men in Two Tin Huts

Air Date: 1969-05-12

Shows attempts being made to break up gangs on Glasgow's Easterhouse Estate.

34. The Leftovers

Air Date: 1969-05-19

Looks at the treatment of Negroes in Sudan.

1. Untried, Inside

Air Date: 1969-09-08

2. No Surrender

Air Date: 1969-09-15

Portrait of the Protestant working class and the vigilantes in Northern Ireland at the height of the Ulster riots in 1969.

3. Crack of the Whip

Air Date: 1969-09-22

Portrait of the Catholic working class and the riots in Ulster, when the barricades were going up in the streets of Derry.

4. Castro

Air Date: 1969-09-29

Following Fidel Castro as he governs the country of Cuba from Jeeps and tents, spending many hours integrating himself with the ordinary people.

5. The Secret Life of Sam the Plumber

Air Date: 1969-10-06

6. Put to the Test

Air Date: 1969-10-13

An observation of the Southwark mobile screening unit for detecting breast and other cancers.

7. State of the Lion

Air Date: 1969-10-20

8. Unknown Soldier

Air Date: 1969-10-27

9. The Life and Death of James Griffiths

Air Date: 1969-11-03

Reconstruction of Glasgow gunman James Griffiths running amok and the final shoot out with the police.

10. Ken Petty, Alas No Longer with Us

Air Date: 1969-11-10

Looks at the alternative life styles of young people who have dropped out of society.

11. Five Days in Washington

Air Date: 1969-11-17

12. A Welcome in the Hillsides

Air Date: 1969-11-24

13. The Breadline

Air Date: 1969-12-01

Lower income workers discuss how they manage to cope on poor wages, amongst politicians and trade union leaders.

14. Where Crime Is a Habit

Air Date: 1969-12-08

A look at the work of the New York Police Dept. and the vigilantes groups that have come about to also tackle crime.

15. Wednesday's Children

Air Date: 1969-12-15

A report on Muscular Dystrophy and examines what is available and what can be done for those suffering.

16. Nancekuke Dossier

Air Date: 1969-12-22

Investigates why the UK is still manufacturing nerve gas.

17. Last Week in Biafra

Air Date: 1969-12-29

Christmas 1969 and a reminder of the last terrible year in Biafra which was blighted by war and the consequent famine and starvation.

18. Frontline Africa

Air Date: 1970-01-05

The guerrilla fight for independence of the people of Portuguese Guinea.

19. The 22 Year Itch

Air Date: 1970-01-12

20. Cold Comfort

Air Date: 1970-01-19

An investigation into the elderly dying from cold in Winter and the effects of hypothermia which can show no obvious symptoms.

21. A Bit Apprehensive

Air Date: 1970-01-26

22. One Down,100,000 to Go

Air Date: 1970-02-02

23. Your Services No Longer Required

Air Date: 1970-02-09

24. Conspiracy

Air Date: 1970-02-16

25. St. Mungo's People

Air Date: 1970-02-23

26. Shalom

Air Date: 1970-03-02

27. Trouble Down the East End

Air Date: 1970-03-09

28. A Case for Benign Neglect?

Air Date: 1970-03-16

29. The State of Denmark

Air Date: 1970-03-23

On the abolishment of censorship in Denmark, infamous morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse goes on an inspection of the state.

30. Seymour

Air Date: 1970-04-06

Follows Seymour as he reconnects with life after being released from prison.

31. Black Mood

Air Date: 1970-04-13

32. Ian Paisley

Air Date: 1970-04-20

33. Are You Alright Jackie?

Air Date: 1970-04-27

A look at the lives of two schoolgirls, both named Jackie, and their juxtaposition with two representatives from the Women's Liberation Front.

34. This House Would Disrupt the SA Cricket Tour

Air Date: 1970-05-04

35. America Talking

Air Date: 1970-05-11

36. Quentin Crisp

Air Date: 1970-07-06

World In Action interview filmed in Quentin's room in a London boarding house.

37. Vic Feather

Air Date: 1970-07-13

38. Act of God

Air Date: 1970-07-20

1. Everybody's Children

Air Date: 1970-09-21

School children at school are doing a play on freedom and the Vietnam war also playing a general

2. The Quiet Mutiny

Air Date: 1970-09-28

Embedded documentary, shot on site during the Vietnam War, showing how young draftees are critical about that war.

3. The Man Who Made Biafra

Air Date: 1970-10-05

4. Pigs?

Air Date: 1970-10-12

Members of the Cincinnati Police Force discuss the increasing animosity being dealt out by the public towards policemen.

5. They're Only Human Beings Like Everybody Else

Air Date: 1970-10-19

There are about 1,500,000 severely physically handicapped people in the United Kingdom. There are, therefore, 1,500,000 handicapped families. This means there are 6,750,000 people directly involved with the problems of the disabled.

6. A Business Arrangement

Air Date: 1970-10-26

7. S.A.L.T.

Air Date: 1970-11-02

8. Goodbye Mr. Smith?

Air Date: 1970-11-09

9. The Mountain People

Air Date: 1970-11-16

America's poor whites of the Appalachia region, who fear there maybe violence against them in the future.

10. The Final Harvest

Air Date: 1970-11-23

11. The Man Who Wouldn't Keep Quiet

Air Date: 1970-11-24

12. The Schemes of Jerome D. Hoffman

Air Date: 1970-11-30

Follows the trail of New York financier Hoffman, who's empire had just crashed leaving investors in the UK out of pocket.

13. The Law Shop

Air Date: 1970-12-07

14. Oh! Birmingham

Air Date: 1970-12-14

15. The Dumping Grounds

Air Date: 1970-12-21

The problems of malnutrition leading to mental and physical problems among the children of resettled black South African families.

16. American Radio

Air Date: 1971-01-04

A personal view by Denis Mitchell.

17. Round One

Air Date: 1971-01-11

18. The Dutschke Affair

Air Date: 1971-01-18

19. The Village That Quit

Air Date: 1971-01-25

A village is asked to give up smoking for a week and the results monitored.

20. The Monday Club

Air Date: 1971-02-01

21. The Breaking Point

Air Date: 1971-02-08

22. Square One

Air Date: 1971-02-15

With renewed fighting through Ulster, has the conflict gone back to square one?

23. Lucky

Air Date: 1971-02-22

Follows the life of an 18 year old from Devon who arrives in London penniless and has to sleep rough, but eventually with help manages to find a job and somewhere to live.

24. Ford: The Inside Story

Air Date: 1971-03-01

25. The Truants

Air Date: 1971-03-08

World In Action talks to three teenage truants about what they get up to when they "wag off" school.

26. The Man Who Stole Uganda

Air Date: 1971-03-15

A military coup has taken place in Uganda, but what is the real story behind the rumours?

27. As It Was in the Beginning...

Air Date: 1971-03-22

Uses footage from previous editions of World in Action to present a history of the troubles so far.

28. The Year Britain Stopped Growing

Air Date: 1971-03-29

Investigates the claim that lack of investment in the UK will seriously affect its competitiveness with mainland Europe.

29. South of the Border

Air Date: 1971-04-05

Attitudes in Eire to the IRA and the situation in Ulster.

30. The Salvation Army

Air Date: 1971-04-19

31. The Sailors' Jail

Air Date: 1971-04-26

32. Going Private

Air Date: 1971-05-03

Investigates the controversy surrounding private patients and their consultants and whether they are exploiting the NHS.

33. The Tanzam Railway

Air Date: 1971-05-10

34. A 2.9% Swing to Democracy in Bradford

Air Date: 1971-05-17

35. Death Is Afraid of Us

Air Date: 1971-05-24

Some people in the country of Georgia claim to be over a 100 years old and still working like people half their age.

36. Conversations with a Working Man

Air Date: 1971-06-07

Following one working class man through the struggles of his average day, to show how the forgotten majority are living in Britain.

37. Anthony Mascarenhas

Air Date: 1971-06-14

38. A Woman's Place

Air Date: 1971-06-21

39. The Dust at Acre Mill

Air Date: 1971-06-28

40. Episode 40

Air Date: 1971-07-05

41. Major Khaled's War

Air Date: 1971-07-12

42. End of a Journey

Air Date: 1971-07-19

43. The Man from No. 10

Air Date: 1971-08-03

1. The Village That Quit, Well Not Exactly

Air Date: 1971-09-06

2. The Sounds of the Clyde

Air Date: 1971-09-13

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 1971-09-20

4. Death of a revolutionary

Air Date: 1971-09-27

The aftermath of the shooting dead of Black Panther George Jackson while allegedly trying to escape from prison. His friends, colleagues and family mourn and seek justice for what they say was a murder.

5. Episode 5

Air Date: 1971-10-04

6. Episode 6

Air Date: 1971-10-11

7. Episode 7

Air Date: 1971-10-18

8. Does an M.P. Have the Right?

Air Date: 1971-10-25

9. The Most Widely Used Drug in the World.

Air Date: 1971-11-15

Aspirins are used for a multitude of different complaints, or even just taken as a daily habit. But, do they have harmful side effects of which people are unaware?

10. Episode 10

Air Date: 1971-11-22

11. The Backseat Generals

Air Date: 1971-11-29

12. Year of the Killing

Air Date: 1971-11-21

Researching on Bangladesh liberation war movement in uk 1971.

13. Episode 13

Air Date: 1971-11-29

14. Working the Land

Air Date: 1972-01-10

15. The Thirty Million Power Game

Air Date: 1972-01-17

16. Episode 16

Air Date: 1972-01-24

17. War in the Air

Air Date: 1972-03-13

18. Waiting for the Package

Air Date: 1972-03-20

Attitudes in Ulster to the British government's proposals for direct rule.

19. The Lump

Air Date: 1972-03-27

A look at the reasons behind the continuing bad relations between building workers and management, which lead to a strike at a Birmingham construction site.

20. Het Dorp

Air Date: 1972-04-10

21. Out of the Melting Pot

Air Date: 1972-04-17

22. The Rule of Law

Air Date: 1972-04-24

23. Containers

Air Date: 1972-05-01

Follows the industrial dispute between Liverpool Dockers and the Heaton's Container yard.

24. Liberty Belles

Air Date: 1972-05-08

25. Conversations with a Single Parent

Air Date: 1972-05-15

26. The Runcorn Experiment

Air Date: 1972-05-22

27. The Siege of Kontum

Air Date: 1972-06-05

World in Action reports from the battle of Kontum, Vietnam - highlighting the plight of the Montagnard mountain people who are caught in the middle.

28. The Protestant Succession

Air Date: 1972-06-12

29. The Docks Dispute

Air Date: 1972-06-19

30. How to Make Enemies & Influence People

Air Date: 1972-06-26

31. Dust-Up at Northfleet

Air Date: 1972-07-03

32. In Search of Gusty Spence

Air Date: 1972-07-10

An interview with the Irish Protestant who denies the murder for which he was convicted, and is being held by the Ulster Volunteer Force who kidnapped him while he was on parole.

33. How to Steal a Party

Air Date: 1972-07-17

34. Episode 34

Air Date: 1972-07-24

35. Episode 35

Air Date: 1972-07-31

36. Caught in the Act

Air Date: 1972-08-07

37. Eh! What?

Air Date: 1972-08-14

Investigation into the problem of noise pollution at work, about which there has been silence for far too long.

1. See for Yourself!

Air Date: 1972-09-11

A London shop steward opposed to immigration is invited to visit Uganda, and see why Asians there have to leave for their own safety and find a new home.

2. A Matter of Discretion

Air Date: 1972-09-18

3. A Question of Torture

Air Date: 1972-09-25

4. The Colenso Diamond

Air Date: 1972-10-02

5. The Children of Vorenezh

Air Date: 1972-10-09

6. Is the Press Biased Against the Labour Party? Wilson Verses Rees-Mogg

Air Date: 1972-10-16

7. Hotels

Air Date: 1972-10-23

8. Canadian Indians

Air Date: 1972-10-30

9. The Stripping of the Appalachia

Air Date: 1972-11-06

10. Police for Sale

Air Date: 1972-11-08

11. Wales for Sale

Air Date: 1972-11-13

12. The Case of Leopold Tresser - Master Spy

Air Date: 1972-11-20

13. On Site

Air Date: 1972-11-27

An investigation into how the appalling accident record on construction sites can be improved.

14. A Day in the Life of Kevin Donnellon

Air Date: 1972-12-04

World in Action spends a day with thalidomide victim, 10 year old Kevin Donnellon.

15. The Angry Brigade

Air Date: 1972-12-07

Meeting the young anarchists involved in a guerrilla bombing campaign.

16. The Cut Price Society of Sidney Carter

Air Date: 1973-01-15

17. How Safe Are American Nuclear Reactors?

Air Date: 1973-01-22

18. The Get Rich Quick Guide

Air Date: 1973-01-29

19. Ready Willing and Disabled

Air Date: 1973-02-19

20. Last Tangle in Paris

Air Date: 1973-02-26

21. Conversations with a Gay Liberal

Air Date: 1973-03-05

Sam Green, a psychiatric nurse, has been elected to Durham council despite being open about his homosexuality. Are attitudes to homosexuals changing?

22. Episode 22

Air Date: 1973-03-12

23. The Coal Enquiries

Air Date: 1973-03-19

24. The Protestant Succession No.2

Air Date: 1973-03-26

25. The Watergate Caper

Air Date: 1973-04-02

26. The Bormann Business

Air Date: 1973-04-14

27. The Rise & Fall of John Poulson

Air Date: 1973-04-30

28. South Vietnam: A Question of Torture

Air Date: 1973-05-07

29. A Place in the Country

Air Date: 1973-05-14

30. A Small Case of Blackmail

Air Date: 1973-05-21

31. Trial 1001

Air Date: 1973-06-04

Trade Unions are illegal in Spain, this looks at the mounting court cases as people continue to defy the law.

32. Dr. Hammer goes to Moscow

Air Date: 1973-06-18

35. Who Goes Home?

Air Date: 1973-06-25

36. Frank's Bank

Air Date: 1973-07-02

37. Like It or Lump It

Air Date: 1973-07-09

The principals of 'lump labour' appear to be the main cause of a dispute with unions, causing the delay in the building of a much needed Islington public housing project.

38. Dr. Burnham Does It Again

Air Date: 1973-07-23

39. Secrets

Air Date: 1973-07-30

40. A Message from the Underground

Air Date: 1973-08-06

1. A Question of Intelligence

Air Date: 1973-09-10

2. Something to Beef About.

Air Date: 1973-09-17

3. The Cost of a Cup of Tea

Air Date: 1973-09-24

4. Tomorrow's Women: Labour

Air Date: 1973-10-01

5. Tomorrow's Women: Conservative

Air Date: 1973-10-08

6. A Threat to the State

Air Date: 1973-10-15

7. The Squeeze

Air Date: 1973-10-22

8. The Squeeze Pt.2

Air Date: 1973-10-29

9. HM's Opposition

Air Date: 1973-11-05

10. An Accidental Death

Air Date: 1973-11-19

11. Drug Squad

Air Date: 1973-11-26

12. Chile: The Reckoning

Air Date: 1973-12-03

13. The Year of the Torturer

Air Date: 1973-12-10

14. The Morning After

Air Date: 1974-01-07

Follows a group of people from different walks of life as they cope with the power cuts, resulting in 'the 3 day week' and spiralling vehicle fuel prices from oil shortages.

15. Hotting Up & Slowing Down

Air Date: 1974-01-14

16. Centre Point

Air Date: 1974-01-21

17. Mr & Mrs Olley Learn the Facts of Life

Air Date: 1974-01-28

18. Flying Pickets

Air Date: 1974-02-04

19. A Political Journey: Part 1

Air Date: 1974-02-11

20. A Political Journey: Part 2

Air Date: 1974-02-18

21. A Political Journey: Part 3

Air Date: 1974-02-25

22. The Others

Air Date: 1974-03-04

23. The Trials of PC. Williams

Air Date: 1974-03-11

24. A Bad Week for the Speculators

Air Date: 1974-03-18

25. The Strange Story of Kevin Kavanagh

Air Date: 1974-04-01

26. Harold Wilson at No.10

Air Date: 1974-04-08

27. Death in the Family

Air Date: 1974-04-22

28. MP's Interests

Air Date: 1974-04-29

29. Business in Gozo

Air Date: 1974-05-06

30. The Ben Hunter Way

Air Date: 1974-05-13

31. The Day the Torture Stopped

Air Date: 1974-05-20

32. The Hefferon Affair

Air Date: 1974-06-03

33. The Selling of the Maharishi

Air Date: 1974-06-10

With the promise of solving the world's problems through meditation, The Maharishi is now a global business worth millions of dollars.

34. The Leader of the Opposition

Air Date: 1974-06-17

35. Cancer Gas

Air Date: 1974-06-24

Investigation into Vinyl Chloride Monomer gas, widely used in the PVC industry and maybe a reason for increased rates of liver cancer for those who work with it.

36. Episode 36

Air Date: 1974-07-01

37. The Old Country

Air Date: 1974-07-08

A visit to a remote region of Equador where some people are claimed to be over a 100 and still physically active. As a Catholic country World in Action checks the baptism records.

38. The Group

Air Date: 1974-07-15

1. An Accident at Sea

Air Date: 1974-09-02

Looks into the loss of the ship Burtonia and whether coastguards acted quickly enough to her distress signal.

2. John Conteh

Air Date: 1974-09-09

3. The Special Unit

Air Date: 1974-09-16

4. It Won't Change My Life

Air Date: 1974-09-23

5. After the Hurricane

Air Date: 1974-09-30

6. The Granada 500

Air Date: 1974-10-07

7. Killer Dust: A Standard Mistake

Air Date: 1974-10-14

8. Birth of a Nation

Air Date: 1974-10-21

9. The Low Road

Air Date: 1974-10-28

A report on the Scottish men who seek a new life in London but find themselves living rough on the streets.

10. On the Trail of the Torturers

Air Date: 1974-11-04

11. Misery Magic

Air Date: 1974-11-11

Investigates the cosmetic company 'Holiday Magic' who is alleged to have involved vulnerable immigrants into a pyramid selling scheme

12. The Trials in Zanzibar

Air Date: 1974-11-18

13. Who Runs Ulster?

Air Date: 1974-11-25

14. Trouble Afoot

Air Date: 1974-12-02

15. Round Up of the Year

Air Date: 1974-12-09

16. Mr Grimshaw

Air Date: 1975-01-06

17. The Morning After the Year Before

Air Date: 1975-01-06

Follow up to what happened to people featured a year ago who were coping with power cuts and oil shortages.

18. Reverend Parker Says Goodbye

Air Date: 1975-01-13

19. No Smoke Without Fire

Air Date: 1975-01-20

20. Why I Want to Be Leader

Air Date: 1975-02-03

Behind the scenes with Mrs. Thatcher as she prepares to run for leadership of the Conservative party, meeting members of the public and spending rare time with her family.

21. Wanted: A Home of Their Own

Air Date: 1975-02-10

22. A Rebel's Dilemma

Air Date: 1975-02-17

23. The Siege of Phnom Penh

Air Date: 1975-02-24

24. Mr. Wilson's First Anniversary

Air Date: 1975-03-03

25. The Blood and Guts Shift

Air Date: 1975-03-10

24 hours spent at the casualty department of a Liverpool Hospital, as it struggles on its budget to treat the wounded from increasing alcohol fuelled violence at the weekend.

26. Tea - The Deadly Cost

Air Date: 1975-03-17

27. Tea: Too High a Price to Pay?

Air Date: 1975-03-24

28. Down with the Rates

Air Date: 1975-04-07

With most local authorities increasing their rates this year, a look at Liverpool Council who have baulked the trend and have reduced theirs.

29. The Dundee Dossier

Air Date: 1975-04-14

30. The Tip of the Iceberg

Air Date: 1975-04-21

Investigates the illegal dumping of hazardous and toxic waste materials.

31. Politics Is an Honourable Profession?

Air Date: 1975-04-22

32. Nuclear Power-For Peace or War?

Air Date: 1975-04-28

Investigates if the west should give into Third World Countries demands for nuclear power for electricity.

33. Here is the News

Air Date: 1975-05-05

Follows the launching of a new newspaper called 'The Scottish Daily News' and how it came together.

34. Sex & Violence

Air Date: 1975-05-12

35. Special: A Bus Round the Market - Part 1

Air Date: 1975-05-27

36. Special: A Bus Round the Market - Part 2

Air Date: 1975-06-03

37. Coming Out in Newport Pagnell

Air Date: 1975-06-09

38. The Rise and Fall of the C.I.A.: Part 1

Air Date: 1975-06-16

An investigation into whether the American Central Intelligence Agency has become too big.

39. The Rise and Fall of the C.I.A.: Part 2

Air Date: 1975-06-23

An investigation into the ways the Central Intelligence Agency has sought to bring down entire governments in countries Iran, Guyana, and Cuba.

40. The Rise and Fall of the C.I.A.: Part 3

Air Date: 1975-06-30

Investigation into wars waged by the Central Intelligence Agency together with American presidents, and the their longterm consequences.

1. The Reluctant Bride

Air Date: 1975-09-08

2. The Roche Affair

Air Date: 1975-09-15

3. Conversations with the Craigs

Air Date: 1975-09-22

4. Democracy in Bulk

Air Date: 1975-09-29

5. Jobless in Batley

Air Date: 1975-10-06

A once thriving town, now in decline as the industrial base continues to shrink, asks where the jobs are coming from for the increasingly unemployed of Batley.

6. The Guinea Pig Soldiers

Air Date: 1975-10-13

Investigates a claim that some American soldiers were unwittingly used in drug experiments.

7. The Luddenden Experiment

Air Date: 1975-10-20

With meat increasingly becoming too expensive for ordinary households, a village undergoes an experiment in doing without meat and finding alternatives.

8. The Billion Dollar Grain Fraud

Air Date: 1975-10-27

9. Popular Power

Air Date: 1975-11-03

10. Scotland: A Political Journey Part One

Air Date: 1975-11-10

11. Scotland: A Political Journey Part Two

Air Date: 1975-11-17

12. An Element of Risk

Air Date: 1975-11-24

Not to be confused with a later edition with the same title, this one is about the risk of error in police identity parades.

13. Blood Money Part One

Air Date: 1975-12-01

Some doctors express their concerns about the blood clotting drug Hemofil which is used by those suffering with haemophilia.

14. Blood Money Part Two

Air Date: 1975-12-08

15. Episode 15

Air Date: 1976-01-12

16. How to Sell an Airforce Part One

Air Date: 1976-01-19

Investigates bribery and corruption in the sale of military aircraft.

17. How to Sell an Airforce Part Two

Air Date: 1976-01-26

18. Cut Off

Air Date: 1976-02-02

The increasing number of people who are having their electricity and gas supplies cut off being unable to pay.

19. Chrysler and the Cabinet - How the Deal Was Done

Air Date: 1976-02-09

Investigates why the government (after declaring no more hand outs to private companies) had given Chrysler Cars payments of grants and loans of over a hundred million pounds to keep them in Britain.

20. Episode 20

Air Date: 1976-02-16

21. Episode 21

Air Date: 1976-02-23

22. The Republic of Rhodesia

Air Date: 1976-03-01

The thoughts and concerns of ordinary Rhodesians.

23. 1936-1976 a Change of Life

Air Date: 1976-03-08

24. The Boss File

Air Date: 1976-03-15

25. In Labour

Air Date: 1976-03-22

The aftermath of the shock resignation of Harold Wilson and where Labour goes from there.

26. The Threat of Nuclear War

Air Date: 1976-03-29

27. Nuts & Bolts of the Economy: Healey's Eight & Half

Air Date: 1976-04-05

28. When in Rome...

Air Date: 1976-04-12

Investigates bribery in the Italian Government by oil companies in order to influence policies.

29. Out of Mind

Air Date: 1976-04-26

Investigates concerns that there are those in mental institutions that should not be in there and should be given a chance to live in society.

30. Nuts & Bolts of the Economy: Patent No.18070/72

Air Date: 1976-05-03

A new invention for containers is followed on its obstacle course from drawing to finished product, showing the difficulties that inventors have in trying to get their ideas off the ground.

31. Nuclear Waste in the Irish Sea

Air Date: 1976-05-10

32. The Dark Societies

Air Date: 1976-05-17

33. The Trials of Popovic

Air Date: 1976-05-24

34. Proposition 15

Air Date: 1976-06-07

35. A Calculated Risk

Air Date: 1976-06-14

36. A Question for Europe

Air Date: 1976-06-21

37. Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - Somebody Has to Do It

Air Date: 1976-06-28

38. Mutiny on the Motorway

Air Date: 1976-07-05

39. Run for Your Life

Air Date: 1976-07-12

MPs are put on a fitness program.

40. A Question of Standards

Air Date: 1976-07-19

41. The Plutonium Economy

Air Date: 1976-07-26

42. Coup D'etat

Air Date: 1976-08-02

1. Unemployment - Who Cares?

Air Date: 1976-09-27

Unemployment has now risen to the notable 1 million mark and this investigation shows the detrimental effect it can have on those people who loose their job.

2. Nuts & Bolts of the Economy: Delta's Dilemma

Air Date: 1976-10-04

3. A School of Thought

Air Date: 1976-10-11

Examination of revolutionary and experimental new teaching methods.

4. Mr Cork Examines the Books

Air Date: 1976-10-18

An ordinary accountant is given the theoretical task of being Chancellor of the Exchequer and giving his take on the situation.

5. Campaigning by Numbers

Air Date: 1976-10-25

6. Yesterday's Truants

Air Date: 1976-11-01

Follow up programme to one five years previous to find out what happened to some persistent school truants.

7. Living Dangerously

Air Date: 1976-11-08

The effects of the chemical Dioxin after a factory explosion in Italy.

8. The Killing of Uganda

Air Date: 1976-11-15

9. The National Party

Air Date: 1976-11-22

Following the racial violence in Blackburn, looks at the rise of the extreme right wing.

10. The Long Arm of the Dina

Air Date: 1976-11-29

11. The Lawbreakers

Air Date: 1976-12-06

12. Made in Hong Kong - Child Labour

Air Date: 1976-12-13

13. Mr Opie Brings Bad News

Air Date: 1977-01-10

14. Doctor's Orders

Air Date: 1977-01-17

Doctors complain that they are being put under pressure by both patients and pharmaceutical companies to prescribe certain drugs.

15. Episode 15

Air Date: 1977-01-24

16. The Militants

Air Date: 1977-01-31

Investigates why the Labour Party is allowing a group within to produce a newspaper like 'The Militant'.

17. Waiting for Merlyn

Air Date: 1977-02-07

An investigation into the Home Secretary's decision to declare two men as a threat to British Security and his moves to have them deported

18. The Road to Amsterdam

Air Date: 1977-02-14

19. The Police Tapes

Air Date: 1977-02-21

21. Equal Pay Today-Or Tomorrow

Air Date: 1977-02-28

22. Do You Take This Man?

Air Date: 1977-03-07

A report on the growing number of Asian girls in the UK who are rejecting the traditional arranged marriage to someone they do not know.

23. From Death Row-To Downing St

Air Date: 1977-03-14

24. Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - Them and Us

Air Date: 1977-03-21

25. Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 1

Air Date: 1977-03-28

26. Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 2

Air Date: 1977-04-04

27. The Plane Makers

Air Date: 1977-04-18

28. The Prison Children

Air Date: 1977-04-25

It is against the law in the UK to put children into prison, so how did 4000 under 17-year-olds come to spend time behind bars?

29. All Work and Low Pay

Air Date: 1977-05-02

30. What Mr. Paisley Didn't Know

Air Date: 1977-05-16

31. The Man Who Went Too Far

Air Date: 1977-05-23

Follow up to 'A Calculated Risk' on the plight of dissident Anatoly Sharansky.

32. Casualties of the Cuts

Air Date: 1977-05-30

Looking at two hospitals that may have to close down, and another who's budget is not coping with the demand of an increasing population.

33. Without Limit of Time

Air Date: 1977-06-13

34. My Years with Amin

Air Date: 1977-06-20

35. Starting on the Dole

Air Date: 1977-06-27

With the continuing rise in youth unemployment, follows two Liverpool teenagers as they look for work and examines the validity of government job creation schemes.

36. The Very Public Death of Enrico Sidoli

Air Date: 1977-07-04

In July of the previous year Enrico was beaten up in a London swimming pool by three youths and held under water, he died days later of injuries. Apart from one girl, nobody there appears to have noticed anything.

37. Jack's Last Stand

Air Date: 1977-07-11

38. Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 1

Air Date: 1977-07-18

39. Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 2

Air Date: 1977-07-25

40. Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 3

Air Date: 1977-08-01

1. The Man Who Talks to Terrorists

Air Date: 1977-09-26

2. The Life and Death of Steve Biko

Air Date: 1977-10-03

Coverage of the immediate aftermath of the death of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko while in the custody of South African police.

3. No Compromise

Air Date: 1977-10-10

4. The Miami Experiment

Air Date: 1977-10-17

5. The Surgery Is Now Closed

Air Date: 1977-10-24

6. Eastern Promise

Air Date: 1977-10-31

7. The Accident

Air Date: 1977-11-07

Investigates a claim by Russian Scientist Dr Zhores Medvedev, that the biggest nuclear accident of all, occurred 20 years previous in the Southern Ural Mountains, where many people died.

8. The Disputed Land

Air Date: 1977-11-14

9. Got It Taped

Air Date: 1977-11-21

10. In the Name of the Law

Air Date: 1977-11-28

Investigates the death of Liddle Towers, who was arrested while drunk, but then died in the custody of Northumbria Police Force.

11. Thatcher Interview

Air Date: 1978-01-30

12. Cold Facts

Air Date: 1978-02-06

People unable to pay their bills are still having their services cut off, despite a reassurance that it would not happen anymore. Follow up to a previous programme a year ago.

13. The Concrete Rings

Air Date: 1978-02-13

Price fixing in the mixed concrete industry.

14. Working for a Pittance

Air Date: 1978-02-20

An examination of how 50 000 physically and mentally disabled people earn a maximum of £4 a week for up to 27 hours of menial work.

15. Death by Request

Air Date: 1978-03-24

One woman's plight to have the Suicide Act amended due to her deteriorating health condition.

16. There's No Place Like Hulme

Air Date: 1978-04-10

Investigates why houses in Hulme that were built in the 1960s are now being recommended to be demolished.

17. The Right's Centre

Air Date: 1978-04-17

18. Black to Front

Air Date: 1978-04-24

19. In the Public Interest

Air Date: 1978-05-08

20. General Grigorenko's New Campaign

Air Date: 1978-05-15

21. Take Care, This Place is Unsafe

Air Date: 1978-05-22

Investigation into the King's College Hospital after it closed down for several hours due to staff shortages and the dangerous situation it left patients in.

22. Smoking - A Double Standard

Air Date: 1978-06-05

23. Dishonourable Discharge

Air Date: 1978-06-12

24. Wait and See

Air Date: 1978-06-19

25. Nuts & Bolts of the Economy: Made in Korea

Air Date: 1978-06-20

26. The Happiness Pill?

Air Date: 1978-06-26

27. The Nazi Party

Air Date: 1978-07-03

Using sworn statements from an undercover police officer, an investigation into whether Britain's National Front is a thinly-veiled modern Nazi Party.

28. Prisoner of Terrorism

Air Date: 1978-07-10

A look at the activities and history of the notorious Baader-Meinhof terrorist group, including an interview with one of the gang's kingpins, Horst Mahler.

29. Russian Justice

Air Date: 1978-07-17

Follow up to 'A Calculated Risk' on the plight of dissident Anatoly Sharansky.

30. Buying Time

Air Date: 1978-07-24

Covert filming in Walton & Wakefield Jails provides evidence of corruption.

31. Liable to Prosecution

Air Date: 1978-07-31

32. No Useful Purpose Would Be Served

Air Date: 1978-08-07

33. Power for Sale

Air Date: 1978-08-14

34. The Invisible Risk

Air Date: 1978-08-21

1. Paraguay - The Last Refuge

Air Date: 1978-10-09

2. Trapped Inside the Wrong Body

Air Date: 1978-10-16

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 1978-10-23

4. Mr Heath at the Miners' Club

Air Date: 1978-10-30

5. The Hunt for Doctor Mengele

Air Date: 1978-11-06

Will Josef Mengele ever be caught? A year later, in 1979, while swimming at he coastal resort of Bertioga, Brazil, he suffered a stroke and drowned. Mengele was buried in Embu das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil, under the name "Wolfgang Gerhard", whose identification he had been using since 1971.

6. Kids United

Air Date: 1978-11-27

7. Episode 7

Air Date: 1978-11-28

8. Inside Europe - The Summit

Air Date: 1978-12-04

9. The Killing of Bruno Busic (1939-1978)

Air Date: 1978-12-11

10. It's Already Been Too Long

Air Date: 1978-12-18

A comparison between the American and British Equal Opportunities Commission, and what they have achieved in new employment opportunities for women in what were considered traditionally male jobs.

11. ...And a Prosperous New Year

Air Date: 1979-01-08

With inflation continuing to rise, asks the question is it fair to restrict the lowest paid public employees to the government 5% guidelines?

12. Episode 12

Air Date: 1979-01-15

13. A Report from Siege City

Air Date: 1979-01-22

Bernard Nossiter, financial reporter on the Washington Post, gives his view on the economic crisis as he visits striking lorry drivers in the city of Hull.

14. No Tears-But Fight

Air Date: 1979-01-29

Follow up to the tragic death of student Jan Pallach in Prague 1968.

15. The Reckoning

Air Date: 1979-02-05

After doing a similar study in the USA, Prof. Harvey Brenner of Baltimore University is invited to do a similar study in the UK, on the relationship between death rates with living and job circumstances.

16. The Life & Friends of Joseph Kagan

Air Date: 1979-02-12

In exile because of tax evasion charges, Kagan gives an account of himself and his controversial relationship with PM. Harold Wilson.

17. Episode 17

Air Date: 1979-02-19

18. The Shutdown

Air Date: 1979-02-26

A profile of the Vickers Works in Tyneside, once a successful manufacturer supplying arms in World War Two and tractors in peace time. Now facing closure and 750 redundancies.

19. Strangers in Their Own Land

Air Date: 1979-03-05

20. Episode 20

Air Date: 1979-03-12

21. A Tale of Two Cities

Air Date: 1979-03-26

A comparison between the steel towns of Corby and Longwy France, as Corby becomes threatened with the loss of 6000 jobs as British Steel struggles with dwindling order books and losses.

22. Banged Up

Air Date: 1979-04-02

A day in the life of Manchester's notoriously overcrowded Strangeways Prison, as World in Action speaks to wardens and prisoners alike.

23. Speke Out

Air Date: 1979-04-23

The closure of the Dunlop Pirelli factory in Merseyside and its drastic affect on the community.

24. Nuclear Nightmare

Air Date: 1979-05-07

25. The Shattered Lives

Air Date: 1979-05-14

Investigation into the use of unsafe thin glass being used in large glassed areas such as patio doors.

26. Armchair Inferno

Air Date: 1979-05-21

Exposé on polyurethane foam, widely used in the furniture industry is highly combustible and when burning gives off toxic fumes.

27. Paying the Market Price

Air Date: 1979-06-04

28. The Luck of the Irish

Air Date: 1979-06-11

29. Special: Inside Amin's Terror Machine

Air Date: 1979-06-13

30. Episode 30

Air Date: 1979-06-18

31. No More School

Air Date: 1979-06-25

Two families discuss their rights, and experts discuss the effects of educating at home because they believe the state education system has failed them.

32. Gay Pride

Air Date: 1979-07-02

33. The Other Professionals

Air Date: 1979-07-12

The British Army's assessment of the Provisional IRA.

34. On Site - Capital Punishment

Air Date: 1979-07-16

35. On Site - Trade Union Power

Air Date: 1979-07-30

36. On Site - National Health Cuts

Air Date: 1979-08-06

1. Mr. Benn's Secret Service

Air Date: 1980-01-07

Mr Benn questions the role of the Civil Service and whether it is becoming too powerful and unanswerable for the country's good?

2. Cambodia Year One - The Aid Crisis

Air Date: 1980-01-14

3. Cambodia Year One - Life After Death

Air Date: 1980-01-21

4. The Man Who Bought United

Air Date: 1980-01-28

5. The Steel Papers

Air Date: 1980-02-04

6. Behind the Paper Curtain

Air Date: 1980-02-11

7. The Pulse of America

Air Date: 1980-02-18

8. The Final Harvest

Air Date: 1980-02-25

9. Claimant, Scrounger, Snooper, Spy

Air Date: 1980-03-03

Case studies of people on both sides of the current crackdown on social security fraud.

10. Follow the Yellow Cake Road

Air Date: 1980-03-10

11. Decline and Fall

Air Date: 1980-03-17

12. Alive and Well in the U.S.A.

Air Date: 1980-03-24

13. Not in the Public Interest

Air Date: 1980-04-14

14. Spying for Survival

Air Date: 1980-04-21

15. The Pound in Their Pocket

Air Date: 1980-04-28

16. The Trial of Stanley Adams

Air Date: 1980-05-12

17. Britain Over a Barrel

Air Date: 1980-05-19

18. A Bad Day for Southall

Air Date: 1980-06-02

19. Mr. Kane's Campaign

Air Date: 1980-06-09

20. Special: What Do You Think of It So Far?

Air Date: 1980-06-10

A review of Britain's membership of the Common Market.

21. Market Day

Air Date: 1980-06-16

22. Fly the Flag, Pay the Price

Air Date: 1980-06-23

23. Russian Games

Air Date: 1980-06-30

24. Mr. Stock and the Thursday Gang

Air Date: 1980-07-07

25. Last Stand at Lisburn

Air Date: 1980-07-14

With communities across Northern Ireland, from the end of the 1960s Lisburn suffered through three decades of political violence, "The Troubles". For Lisburn the first killings came in 1976: in the course of the year, five Catholic residents died as a result of gun and bomb attacks by the Ulster Defence Association and the new Ulster Volunteer Force, loyalist paramilitary groups that subsequently entered their own feud.

26. Vietnam - Prisoner of War

Air Date: 1980-07-14

27. A Dignified Exit

Air Date: 1980-07-28

"EXIT" - the society for the right to die with dignity, are publishing a controversial suicide guide for terminally ill people who require a dignified death.

28. The Tirion Programme

Air Date: 1980-08-04

29. Suffer the Children

Air Date: 1980-08-11

30. The Chart Busters

Air Date: 1980-08-18

Investigating allegations that the pop music charts are controlled not by consumers, but by manipulative tactics of the big record companies, thus not being a true reflection of popularity at all.

1. The State of Britain - The Road to Brighton Pier

Air Date: 1980-10-13

2. South Africa's Bombshell

Air Date: 1980-10-20

3. Creating Criminals

Air Date: 1980-10-27

4. Choosing Labour's Leader

Air Date: 1980-11-03

5. The Party's Over

Air Date: 1980-11-10

6. Death on the Dole

Air Date: 1980-11-17

7. The H-Block Fuse

Air Date: 1980-11-24

Report at the beginning of the fifth week of the hunger strike in the H Block of Maze Prison by IRA prisoners seeking a recognition of their status as political prisoners including an interview with one of the prisoners, R.V. McCartney.

8. The Rossminster Affair

Air Date: 1980-12-01

9. The Hunt for the Ripper

Air Date: 1980-12-08

The Yorkshire Ripper is still at large, and this follows the hectic and demanding West Yorkshire police investigation.

10. No Room at the Inn

Air Date: 1980-12-15

11. The Blood Business

Air Date: 1980-12-22

12. The State of Britain - The Secret in South Wales

Air Date: 1981-01-05

13. Michael Foot

Air Date: 1981-01-19

14. The White House General

Air Date: 1981-01-26

15. The Social Democrats

Air Date: 1981-02-02

16. The F.B.I.'s Secret Tapes

Air Date: 1981-02-09

17. Killing for a Cure

Air Date: 1981-02-16

A look at vivisection, and the activities of the controversial Animal Liberation Front who believe more militant action is needed to end unnecessary cruelty to animals.

18. The State of Britain - In for a Penny

Air Date: 1981-02-23

19. Off the Rails

Air Date: 1981-03-02

A UK rail crash in 1978 was thought to have been caused by signalling equipment that was over 50 years old. Sir Peter Parker attempts to get more money from the government to invest in the railways.

20. The State of the Nation

Air Date: 1981-03-09

Journalists re-enact the political discussions around the economy on the eve of the budget.

21. These Children Are Mine

Air Date: 1981-03-16

Anwar Ditta is a mother. That is not disputed. But the government say she is the mother of one child. She says she is the mother of four. However, the other three are in Pakistan, and that disagreement means she cannot bring them here.

22. The Fight for the Centre

Air Date: 1981-03-23

23. The Men from Argentina

Air Date: 1981-03-30

24. The Curse of the Klan

Air Date: 1981-04-06

Report on the re-emergency's of the Ku Klux Klan in both northern and southern states of America and the rising tide of racism there. Includes interviews with Klan members past and present and members of the black community who have been attacked by them.

25. Comrades at Arms

Air Date: 1981-04-13

26. More Than Just a Few Perks

Air Date: 1981-04-27

A civil servant who questioned the expense claims of the GLC found himself out of a job.

27. The Shape of Wars to Come

Air Date: 1981-05-11

28. Home and Away

Air Date: 1981-05-18

29. Do Mind If I Smoke?

Air Date: 1981-06-01

An investigation into new claims that non smokers are at risk in smoke filled rooms.

30. To Russia with Love

Air Date: 1981-06-08

31. Tories for Turning

Air Date: 1981-06-15

32. Kevin at the Crossroads

Air Date: 1981-06-22

Follows Kevin, a victim of the drug thalidomide as he enters the job market.

33. The Silent Epidemic

Air Date: 1981-06-29

Very few people have heard of Alzheimer's Disease, despite the fact that one in 12 over 60s will get and possibly die from it.

34. Guns to the Right

Air Date: 1981-07-06

35. A Dangerous Age

Air Date: 1981-07-13

36. A Conflict of Evidence

Air Date: 1981-07-20

37. Toxteth Revisited

Air Date: 1981-07-27

Dr Ben Holman and Tommy Olds visited Liverpool eight years previously and predicted riots would happen in the future. They now make a return visit in the aftermath of the riots.

38. The Agony of Angola

Air Date: 1981-08-03

39. When Night Comes to Kandahar

Air Date: 1981-08-17

Report from Afganistan in which the World In Action camera team join a night time Afghan rebel attack, led by Ismael Gailani, on a government post in the capital, Kandahar and also look at the conditions for the Afghans under the present regime in the country. Looks at the way of life of the Afghan people under the regime supported by Russian forces.

40. Waiting for Justice

Air Date: 1981-08-10

41. A Picture of Health

Air Date: 1981-08-24

1. The Discarded People

Air Date: 1981-10-19

2. The Disarmament Man

Air Date: 1981-10-26

3. Two Out of 30,000

Air Date: 1981-11-02

4. Living with Poverty

Air Date: 1981-11-09

5. Dust to Dust

Air Date: 1981-11-16

6. The Preacher and the Peacemaker

Air Date: 1981-11-23

7. Bleeding to Death

Air Date: 1981-11-30

8. Families at War

Air Date: 1981-12-07

9. A Statistic - A Reminder

Air Date: 1981-12-14

10. Taste of Power

Air Date: 1982-01-04

11. The Price of Britain's Bomb

Air Date: 1982-01-11

12. Divided We Stand

Air Date: 1982-01-18

13. Deals on Wheels

Air Date: 1982-01-25

Investigates why same model cars are cheaper on the continent.

14. Private Darkin's Army

Air Date: 1982-02-01

Documentary about a soldier, Private Darkin, who committed suicide after facing bullying in the Army. The filming took place at Blackdown Barracks, Deepcut, Camberley, Surrey, and included a Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) platoon in training called Delhi Platoon. This contributor , David Kinsey, was a Private soldier in training and in that platoon and the programme includes what became a punch line 'Eyes front Di Pietro' shouted by the drill Sergeant, Colin Egan.

15. The Tobacco War

Air Date: 1982-02-08

16. A Bankrupt Game

Air Date: 1982-02-15

An investigation into football clubs' financial problems and the looming crisis, with a focus on Bristol City Football Club.

17. The I.R.A.'s Arms Cash

Air Date: 1982-02-22

18. Caution to the Wind

Air Date: 1982-03-01

19. The Worried Men

Air Date: 1982-03-08

20. In the Name of the Lord

Air Date: 1982-03-15

21. Home Help

Air Date: 1982-03-22

22. Irish Lessons

Air Date: 1982-03-29

23. Britain on the Brink

Air Date: 1982-04-05

24. Special: The Falklands 100 - Part 1

Air Date: 1982-04-13

25. Special: The Falklands 100 - Part 2

Air Date: 1982-04-14

26. Special: The Falklands 100 - Part 3

Air Date: 1982-04-15

27. Special: The Falklands 100 - Part 4

Air Date: 1982-04-16

28. The Spoils of Peace

Air Date: 1982-04-19

29. The Falklands and the British Task Force

Air Date: 1982-04-26

32. The Real British Disease

Air Date: 1982-05-10

Examines why young people are not leaving learning Establishments with the skills being demanded by industry.

33. Falklands 100

Air Date: 1982-05-17

34. Weekend at War

Air Date: 1982-05-24

37. Paying for the War

Air Date: 1982-06-07

38. Home or Husband

Air Date: 1982-06-14

39. Britain's Other Islanders

Air Date: 1982-06-21

In 1971, the British shipped all the inhabitants from Diego Garcia, having purchased the Chagos Archipelago in 1965, so that is could be used as an allied military base with the US. But now people are beginning to question this treatment.

40. Operation Quicksilver

Air Date: 1982-06-28

Looks at the intense lobbying and scheming going on behind the scenes by other manufacturers trying to prevent Nissan building a car plant in the UK.

41. A Small Town Tragedy

Air Date: 1982-07-05

Victims of asbestos related illnesses in Blooming Dale Illinois question why they have yet to receive the awarded compensation from the original supplier, Cape Industries.

42. Operation Peace for Galilee

Air Date: 1982-07-12

43. Prisoner's Medicine

Air Date: 1982-07-19

44. Learning to Lose

Air Date: 1982-07-26

45. Cleaning Up the Yard

Air Date: 1982-08-02

Operation Countryman was supposed to be the biggest ever investigation into corruption in Scotland Yard and the Metropolitan Police, so why did it result in such minor results?

46. The Health Service

Air Date: 1982-08-09

The health service today began 5 days' intensive strike action, leaving only emergency services running, in pursuit of a 12% pay rise. This is the most severe disruption the NHS has ever seen, and a massive backlog results. Studio discussion.

47. Streets Apart

Air Date: 1982-08-16

48. Israel's Other War

Air Date: 1982-08-23

1. The Mystery of Flight 163

Air Date: 1982-10-25

2. DeLorean - The Inside Story

Air Date: 1982-11-01

3. Losing Out to London

Air Date: 1982-11-08

4. An Adverse Reaction

Air Date: 1982-11-15

The plight of the small minority of children damaged by vaccination against diphtheria, polio, and whooping cough, and the efforts of their parents to obtain adequate compensation. Plus Kenneth Clarke denies signing a letter of agreement.

5. The Betrayal of British Industry: Part 1

Air Date: 1982-11-22

6. The Betrayal of British Industry: Part 2

Air Date: 1982-11-29

7. The Silicon Spies

Air Date: 1982-12-06

8. Voices from the Underground

Air Date: 1982-12-13

9. When the Cheering Stops

Air Date: 1982-12-20

10. The Power Brokers

Air Date: 1983-01-10

11. Too Cold to Live

Air Date: 1983-01-17

12. A Difficult Prisoner

Air Date: 1983-01-24

13. The Peace War

Air Date: 1983-01-31

14. Rich Law, Poor Law

Air Date: 1983-02-07

15. People Without a Land

Air Date: 1983-02-21

16. Arms to Argentina

Air Date: 1983-03-07

17. What the Papers Pay

Air Date: 1983-03-14

18. Operation Hit & Win

Air Date: 1983-03-21

In the USA, the FBI have decided to start investigating the IRA.

19. Michael Foot and the Darlington Election

Air Date: 1983-03-28

20. Harvest Gold

Air Date: 1983-04-11

21. An Offence Against the Person

Air Date: 1983-04-18

22. The Battle for the Atlantic

Air Date: 1983-05-09

23. Walter Cronkite's Campaign Trail: Part 1

Air Date: 1983-05-23

24. Walter Cronkite's Campaign Trail: Part 2

Air Date: 1983-05-30

25. The Election 500

Air Date: 1983-06-06

26. The Heroin Barons

Air Date: 1983-06-13

27. The System Builder

Air Date: 1983-06-20

Investigates the building practices of one of the UK's largest house builders 'Barrett Homes' and whether their quickly built timber frame system houses are suffering quality issues.

28. Your Home in Their Hands

Air Date: 1983-06-27

29. A Law Unto Themselves

Air Date: 1983-07-04

30. Krugerrand Cricket

Air Date: 1983-07-11

31. The Man Who Left His Tribe

Air Date: 1983-07-18

32. The Trails of Hoffman

Air Date: 1983-07-25

33. The Race Against Reagan

Air Date: 1983-08-01

34. Colonel Rauff's Refuge

Air Date: 1983-08-08

Comedian Jack Whitehall hosts the third show in the revived series, introducing a line-up of fabulous acts from around the globe. There is a special performance by the legendary Lionel Richie, The Script play their hit Superheroes, Hollywood actress and former Bond girl Gemma Arterton gives an exclusive preview of the West End musical Made in Dagenham, and there is plenty of comedy and some incredible speciality acts from around the world.

35. A Widow's Story

Air Date: 1983-08-15

A direct follow-up to Weekend at War (1982) reuniting with Elaine Evans, who had previously been shown awaiting news of her husband Ken, away fighting in the Falklands. Sadly, she has now learnt of his death.

1. Watching the Waste Go By

Air Date: 1983-10-10

2. Tea - A Bitter Taste

Air Date: 1983-10-17

3. A Farewell to Arms Control

Air Date: 1983-10-24

4. A Serious Medical Emergency

Air Date: 1983-10-31

5. In No Man's Land

Air Date: 1983-11-07

6. The Grenada Factor

Air Date: 1983-11-14

7. Devil's Advocate

Air Date: 1983-11-21

Gus MacDonald recalls 200 previously unemployed Manchester youth in 1 hour live special "Devil's Advocate". Guests include radio/TV personality Terry Christian and Smith's guitarist Johnny Marr.

8. Sea of Despair

Air Date: 1983-11-28

Investigates piracy and rape claims by Thai fishermen against the Vietnamese boat people.

9. Fit for Work

Air Date: 1983-12-05

10. After Doomsday

Air Date: 1983-12-12

Are the dangers of a nuclear attack being exaggerated in order to keep people in a permanent state of fear?

11. The Honourable Member for Belfast West

Air Date: 1983-12-19

12. For the Benefit of Mr. Parris

Air Date: 1984-01-23

13. The Sinking of Scott Lithgow

Air Date: 1984-01-30

14. From Rags to Riches

Air Date: 1984-02-06

15. Special: Here We Stand - A Protestant View of Ulster

Air Date: 1984-02-09

16. Countdown to a Coronary

Air Date: 1984-02-13

17. The Decade of Delay

Air Date: 1984-02-20

18. Gross Misconduct

Air Date: 1984-02-27

19. The Press Gang

Air Date: 1984-03-05

Examines the press's attitude towards public figures. The Sun newspaper had written that an American Psychiatrist had declared Tony Benn insane. This investigation shows that the psychiatrist had been misquoted.

20. Tell Me More

Air Date: 1984-03-12

21. The City That Says No

Air Date: 1984-03-19

Documentary report which examines the arguments of Liverpool City Council which have been put to the government for planned spending which exceeds the set budget for the year as laid down by central government.

22. The Black Sheep of Whitehall

Air Date: 1984-03-26

23. The Food Factor

Air Date: 1984-04-02

24. Looking After Their Own

Air Date: 1984-04-09

25. Women on the Line

Air Date: 1984-04-16

26. For the Love of Boxing

Air Date: 1984-04-30

27. Caught in the Crossfire

Air Date: 1984-05-14

28. Robbing the Rich

Air Date: 1984-05-21

29. South Africa's Other Leader

Air Date: 1984-06-04

30. On the Rocks

Air Date: 1984-06-11

31. Your Starter for Life

Air Date: 1984-06-18

32. Drilling for Gold

Air Date: 1984-06-25

33. On the Scrap Heap

Air Date: 1984-07-02

34. Solidarity on Trial

Air Date: 1984-07-09

35. The Spy Who Never Was

Air Date: 1984-07-16

Special report, based on an extensive interview with M15 and M16 investigator Peter Wright, on the case against the former head of M15 Roger Hollis.

36. Business in Oman

Air Date: 1984-07-23

1. Clap Trap

Air Date: 1984-09-24

Although claptrap can mean talking nonsense, it can also mean talking in such a way as to inspire applause. Ann Brennan is interested in entering politics, but with no experience in public speaking, would love to fall into that claptrap.

2. An Appointment with Mr. Mitchell

Air Date: 1984-10-01

3. Football's Mr. Fix-It

Air Date: 1984-10-08

4. The Coal War

Air Date: 1984-10-15

With the recent coal troubles still fresh in people's minds, a comparison of strike action in British and American collieries.

5. Apartheid's Back Yard

Air Date: 1984-10-22

6. Plans for Coal

Air Date: 1984-10-29

Documentary report on the practicalities of returning coal mining to private enterprise in the light of the long-drawn out industrial dispute in the coalfields in 1984/5.

7. Ronald Reagan - The Second Coming

Air Date: 1984-11-05

8. The Politics of Starvation

Air Date: 1984-11-12

10. Kidnapped

Air Date: 1984-11-19

11. Belgrano - A View from the Conqueror

Air Date: 1984-12-03

12. Softly, Softly, Strike Force

Air Date: 1984-12-10

The very different tactics of police in the West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire regions in dealing with the ongoing miners' strike.

13. Tried, Untested

Air Date: 1984-12-17

14. Special: World in Action - The First 21 Years

Air Date: 1984-12-27

15. Taken on Trust

Air Date: 1985-01-07

16. The Miners and the Microchip

Air Date: 1985-01-14

17. Civil Unrest

Air Date: 1985-01-21

18. Father and Son

Air Date: 1985-01-28

19. Going Dutch

Air Date: 1985-02-04

20. The Knock on the Door

Air Date: 1985-02-11

21. Taking the Medicine

Air Date: 1985-02-18

22. A Conflict in Customs

Air Date: 1985-02-25

23. Death of an English Rose

Air Date: 1985-03-04

Investigates the strange murder of famous rose grower Hilda Murrell who was also a fervent anti-nuclear protester.

24. Our Health Service - Doing Better, Feeling Worse

Air Date: 1985-03-11

25. Our Health Service - The Pensioners' Ration

Air Date: 1985-03-18

26. Our Health Service - A Prescription for the Poor

Air Date: 1985-03-25

27. The Swan and the Plough

Air Date: 1985-04-01

28. Not for Love or Money

Air Date: 1985-04-15

29. The Baby Makers

Air Date: 1985-04-22

30. Children of the Loom

Air Date: 1985-04-29

31. Ken Livingstone - Destination Unknown

Air Date: 1985-05-13

32. First Strike

Air Date: 1985-05-20

33. The Betrayal of Bhopal

Air Date: 1985-06-03

34. Raising the Belgrano

Air Date: 1985-06-10

35. Britain's Cocaine Colony

Air Date: 1985-06-17

36. The Dream of John Delorean

Air Date: 1985-06-24

37. Hit and Run

Air Date: 1985-07-01

38. A Song for Africa

Air Date: 1985-07-08

Behind the scenes with Bob Geldof in the weeks leaving up to the Live Aid concerts.

39. Disunited Nations

Air Date: 1985-07-15

40. Bad Blood

Air Date: 1985-07-22

Innocent haemophiliacs have been infected with HIV while being treated with what is supposedly a beneficial clotting agent.

1. The Bishop and the Minister

Air Date: 1985-09-23

2. Mr. Kinnock Spells It Out

Air Date: 1985-09-30

3. The Great Food Scandal

Air Date: 1985-10-07

4. The Front Line

Air Date: 1985-10-14

5. The Last Days of Juliet Lima

Air Date: 1985-10-21

A surprise fire has broken out on the normally safe Boeing 737, but what were the causes and how could this have been allowed to happen?

6. In the Interests of Justice

Air Date: 1985-10-28

Extended edition investigating the safety of the convictions of the Birmingham Six.

7. Whites Only

Air Date: 1985-11-04

8. Shades of Blue

Air Date: 1985-11-11

9. Designed for Living

Air Date: 1985-11-18

Can housing design affect crime levels?

10. Children at War

Air Date: 1985-11-25

11. An Element of Risk (II)

Air Date: 1985-12-02

Not to be confused with the earlier edition with the same title; this one is about the risk of accidents in the workplace.

12. Too Late for Lisa

Air Date: 1985-12-09

13. The Trouble with Derek

Air Date: 1985-12-16

14. The Honourable Member for the Unemployed

Air Date: 1986-01-06

Harry Morgan and Matthew Parris previously met in World in Action's "For the Benefit of Mr. Parris", and unexpectedly became friends. This time, they swap rôles, with Harry acting as a Member of Parliament.

15. The Westland Affair

Air Date: 1986-01-13

16. Doctor, There's Something in My Soup

Air Date: 1986-01-20

17. Live from Westminster

Air Date: 1986-01-27

18. A Widow's Crusade

Air Date: 1986-02-03

19. As the Dust Settles

Air Date: 1986-02-10

20. The One That Got Away

Air Date: 1986-02-17

21. On Yer Bike

Air Date: 1986-02-24

Two unemployed young men take the Thatcher's government's advice.

22. The Selling of Telecom

Air Date: 1986-03-03

23. Bradwell Says No

Air Date: 1986-03-10

24. Inside Ponting's Whitehall

Air Date: 1986-03-17

25. The President's Private War

Air Date: 1986-03-24

26. The Hardliner

Air Date: 1986-04-07

27. The Threatened Generation

Air Date: 1986-04-14

28. No Place Like Home

Air Date: 1986-04-28

29. The Face Lifters

Air Date: 1986-05-12

30. Practically Impossible

Air Date: 1986-05-19

31. In Human Hands

Air Date: 1986-06-02

In the light of the Chernobyl accident checks out safety procedures at the Dounreay Power Station.

32. Without Due Care

Air Date: 1986-06-09

33. Taking on Gaddafi

Air Date: 1986-06-16

34. South Africa - Uncensored

Air Date: 1986-06-23

35. The Road to Mexico

Air Date: 1986-06-30

36. The Wirecutters

Air Date: 1986-07-07

37. The Man Who is Blackmailing Britain

Air Date: 1986-07-14

38. Behind Closed Doors

Air Date: 1986-07-21

38. U2: Anthem for the Eighties

Air Date: 1987-07-27

Documentary on U2 based around a 1987 concert in their home town of Dublin.